People ex rel. Kittenger v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners

.Titus, J.

This' is an application for a writ of mandamus, directing the civil service commission of the city of Buffalo to' place the name of the relator, Samuel Kittenger, upon the eligible list of the civil service of the city of Buffalo for a clerkship. under schedule “ B,” and that the civil service commission certify, his name to the proper authorities for appointment when a vacancy occurs.

*218The facts of the case, as presented by the papers, are not in dispute; the relator is a citizen and a resident of the city of Buffalo; he is an honorably discharged soldier of the late war, having been…