Castner v. Griffith

OPINION OF THE COURT

Andrew V. Siracuse, J.

Petitioner in this CPLR article 78 proceeding was hired in January 1995, as a probationary firefighter. He was discharged several months later, while still on probation, after he informed the City that he had moved to the suburban Town of Gates. Petitioner’s discharge followed an investigation — triggered by his notice of a new address — that revealed that he had moved out of the City in November 1994, after he took and passed the civil service examination but two months before his hiring, and that he had continued to give his Rochester address to…