People ex rel. Breckenridge v. Scannell

The prayer' of the petition in this case asks for either one of three separate forms of relief, but counsel stated on the argument, and reiterates the statement in his brief, that he rests his right to a mandamus upon the third ground alone, and raises simply the question whether the position of confidential examiner in the bureau of the fire marshal in the borough of Manhattan, city of Hew York, is a strictly confidential position within the meaning of chapter 184 of the Laws of 1898, and whether under said chapter and section 127 of the Greater Hew York charter, the petitioner is protected…