Legal Opinion
In re Nichols
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 15, 1879PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWestbrook, J.
On the 5th day of April, 1879, Mr. Edward Cooper, the mayor of the city of New York, made an order purporting to remove Sidney P. Nichols, one of the police commissioners of said city, from office, which act was approved by the governor of the state, hon. Lucius Lobinsón, on the seventeenth day of the same month. Mr. Nichols asks that a writ of certiorari may issue from this court to the said mayor and governor to review their action in the premises.
The power of removal of the heads of departments in the city of New York is given by its charter (chapter 335 of Laws 1873, sec. 25), and is in…
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