People ex rel. Dougan v. Greene
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 3d day of June, 1903, directed to Francis Y. Greene, as police commissioner of the police department of the city of New York, commanding him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Kings all and singular his proceedings had in dismissing the relator from the police force of the police department of the city of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The relator, who had served on the police force for about fifteen years, and whose reputation as such we may assume to have been good, for nothing appears to the contrary, has been removed from his position as roundsman upon the charge that he had been guilty of “ conduct unbecoming an officer,” a very elastic term, depending upon individual conceptions of what belongs to the office of a policeman. In the case now before us the specifications are two in number. One of these is that while the relator was being tried upon a former charge of having failed to pay an indebtedness to…
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