People ex rel. Shea v. Bryant
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John J. Seannell, as fire commissioner of the city of New York, from an 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, 1898, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the said fire commissioner to reinstate the relator in his former position as an active member of the uniformed fire department (formerly of Brooklyn, but now) of the…
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Appeal by the defendant, John J. Seannell, as fire commissioner of the city of New York, from an 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, 1898, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the said fire commissioner to reinstate the relator in his former position as an active member of the uniformed fire department (formerly of Brooklyn, but now) of the city of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
On the 1st day of July, 1895, the relator was apj>ointed a member of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of Brooklyn. He duly entered upon his .duties, and continued to per-' form them until the 14th day of November, 1895, when his name was placed upon the pension roll of the firemen’s insurance fund by order of the commissioner of the fire department, who granted to him a pension of $100 per annum from the said fund to date from December 1, 1897.
At the time of this action on the part of the commissioner his authority for placing the name of a fireman…
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