Chittenden v. Wurster
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal -by the defendants, Frederick W. Wurster, as mayor of the city of Brooklyn, and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 4th day of January, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after á trial at the Kings County Special Term enjoining and restraining the payment of salaries to certain of the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
C-oodkioh, P. J.:
The plaintiffs, taxpayers' of the city of Brooklyn, bring this action against the mayor, comptroller, city auditor, city clerk, city treasurer and. eleven persons in the municipal service of the city of Brooklyn to restrain the payment of salaries to such persons, on the ground that they were appointed to office since January 1, 1895, without examination, competitive or otherwise, although such examinations were practicable, and that such appointment was within' the inhibition of section 9, article Y of the Constitution of 1894.
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