People ex rel. Brady v. Brookfield
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, James Brady, from an order of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Mew York, made at a Special Term thereof, and entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 10th day of December, 1895, denying the relator’s motion for a writ of peremptory mandamus directing the respondent to reinstate the relator in his position as acting assistant general inspector of paving in the department of public works.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J. ■:
■ The relator, claiming to be an honorably-discharged Union soldier and also an honorably discharged volunteer fireman, had been in ■the employment of the department of public works as acting inspector of paving from March, 1888, until the 15th of July, 1895, when he was removed by the respondent, then commissioner of public works. He now claims that he was unlawfully removed, and did not have that notice and hearing to which he was entitled by the statutes, of this State as a discharged .veteran soldier.
Under the provisions of such statutes, the relator was entitled to both…
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