People ex rel. Fitzgibbons v. Trustees of the New York & Brooklyn Bridge
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 12th day of June, 1895, denying a motion for a writ superseding a writ of certiorari.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J.:
The relator, for eleven years preceding his discharge, had been a, policeman upon the New York and Brooklyn bridge.
On January 7, 1895, he was tried by the trastees of said bridge upon charges preferred against him, and subsequently was adjudged to be guilty, and was dismissed from the force. Thereafter a writ, of certiorari was, upon his petition, issued out of the Supreme. Court, directed to “ The Board of Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge,” commanding them to make return to the court of all their acts and proceedings relating to such discharge. The appellant…
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