Kane v. McClellan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
■ Appeal by’the defendants, George B. McClellan,, as mayor of the "city of New York,'and others, composing the board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New York, 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 l'lth day of October, 1905, granting the petitioner’s motion for a peremptory writ 'of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
From January 1, 1898, to December 31, 1901, the petitioner, James Kane, was the commissioner of sewers of the city of New Yorb. During his term of office a criminal action was instituted against him upon an indictment for official malfeasance for having violated section 1551 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378). The petitioner was successful in his defense, it'being determined by the Trial Term [of the Supreme Court in Kings county, by the Appellate Division in the second department (People v. kane, 43 App. Div. 472) and by the Court of Appeals (161…
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