Volgenau v. Finegan

The question submitted upon this application for a mandamus is the propriety of the action of the civil service authorities in striking thirty-four clerks of the Magistrates’ Courts of the City of New York from the exempt class of the municipal civil service classification and subjecting those positions hereafter to competitive examinations. The grievance is asserted by the petitioner, one of the clerks who was first appointed to his position in 1907 for the four-year term provided by the statute and reappointed every four years thereafter. His present appointment expires in 1939. The…