Wolfson v. Cruise

The petitioner could not legally be deprived of the position to which he was appointed on March 17, 1930, by the resolution of the municipal civil service commission adopted on June 1, 1938, which transferred the position in question to the competitive class. (Matter of Fornara v. Schroeder, 261 N. Y. 363; Matter of Cook v. Kern, 278 id. 195; Matter of Kinsella v. Kern, 168 Misc. 847; affd., 254 App. Div. 834; leave to appeal denied, 278 N. Y. 739.) Under these circumstances it would seem that for the purposes of section 31 of the Civil Service Law, the date of the petitioner’s original “…