People ex rel. White v. York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Martin H. White, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and enrered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of Movember, 1898, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the respondents, who compose the police board of the city of Mew York, commanding them to give to the relator the rights of a police captain of the city of Mew York, and to pay to him his…
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Appeal by the relator, Martin H. White, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and enrered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of Movember, 1898, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the respondents, who compose the police board of the city of Mew York, commanding them to give to the relator the rights of a police captain of the city of Mew York, and to pay to him his salary as such police captain for the month of June, 1898.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
Prior to July 1, 1894, the relator was a captain of police in the western division of the town of Mew Utrecht. Upon that day, by virtue of the provisions of chapter 451 of the Laws of 1894, the territory embraced in said town became annexed to and was made a part of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and the said town thereafter ceased to have any existence as a political division of the State. Civil administration over said territory was vested in the officers of the city of Brooklyn. By section 14 of the act, the territory of the town was constituted a police precinct…
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