Williams v. Darling

The facts are conceded. The relator is a Union veteran of the late Civil War. On May 12, 1903, he was appointed superintendent of streets and city property, by the board of street commissioners of the city of Binghamton, *206after certification, by the municipal civil service commission upon a non-competitive examination, to fill the uncxpirecl term of J. M. Seabury, which terminated in February, 1905. Under the city charter then in force, the appointment was for a term of two years. The position was non-competitive in the classified service. Its duties were to see that the streets and sidewalks…