People ex rel. Snyder v. Summers
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Erie county. Motion for peremptory mandamus requiring defendants, the members of the common council of the city of Buffalo, and the street commissioner of that city, to confirm the appointment of relator, John if. Snyder, to the office of inspector of health and streets, which had been made and communicated to the common council by the street commissioner. From an order granting the motion defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMacomber, J.
The notice of motion accompanying the petition was that application would be made to the special term of this court for a writ of peremptory mandamus, directing the defendant Quinn, as the street commissioner of the city of Buffalo, to certify to the common council the fact that the relator served as a soldier in the war of the Bebellion, and was honorably discharged therefrom; and that thereupon the common council be required to consent to and confirm the appointment of the relator as inspector of health and streets, theretofore made by the street superintendent. The defendants, other than…
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