Legal Opinion

Sullivan v. McAneny

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 16, 1911Published

Appeal by the defendant, George McAneny, as president, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of April, 1911, granting the petitionér’s motion for a 'peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the defendant to restore the petitioner to the position of foreman cabinetmaker in the bureau of public buildings and offices.

1Opinion of the Court

Clarke, J.:

The petition alleges that relator was on the 28th of May, 1903, duly appointed a cabinetmaker in the bureau of public buildings and offices attached to the office of the president of the borough of Manhattan; “ that the grade of foreman cabinetmaker is in the classified civil service and was established according to law by resolution of the Board of Aldermen June 22,1909, fixing the place of foreman cabinetmaker at Six dollars *414($6) per day and limiting it to one incumbent, and deponent was. appointed July 1, 1909, thereto after a competitive-civil', service examination for such…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Barton v. BrannanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910

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