O'Donnell v. McClellan

The applicant, claiming to be upon the eligible list, seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the members of the board of city magistrates to make appointments to the positions of court attendants in the city magistrates’ courts, and requiring the members of the board of estimate and apportionment to assent to such assignments, if such assent should be deemed necessary, and requiring the police commissioner and his deputies to remove from detail or attendance at such courts all police officers now acting therein. In support of the application it is urged that police officers are used to…