People ex rel. McCarthy v. Shea
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Patrick J. McCarthy, from a final order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 2d day of February, 1900, dismissing an alternative writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to reinstate the relator in the position of conductor on the New York and Brooklyn bridge, and denying his "application for a peremptory writ.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
In 1897 the trustees of the New York and Brooklyn bridge; pursuant to an act of the Legislature passed in that year (Chap. 663, Laws of 1897), made a contract with the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company, whereby that corporation was enabled to have its trains operated over the bridge by persons in the employ of the trustees. Under this contract the trustees did not wholly withdraw the independent train service which had previously been maintained, but ran some trains for themselves and some for the Brooklyn Elevated' Railroad Company. By the Greater New York charter the…
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