People ex rel. Sweeney v. Sturgis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Thomas Sweeney, 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 16th day of May, 1902, denying the relator’s motion for a peremotory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The relator applied for a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the respondent, as fire commissioner of the city of New York, “to carry into effect, execute and enforce the provisions of the Labor Law * * * and to so regulate the rules and regulations of the tire department so that engineers and firemen thereof shall not be assigned to more than eight hours duty in any one calendar day.” The petition alleges that the relator is a “ fireman of the first grade, a driver in the fire department ” of the city. It is somewhat difficult to discover any status of the relator which…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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