People ex rel. Bacon v. Knox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles II. Knox and others,-as commissioners, constituting the municipal civil service commissioners of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of January, 1902, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to certify the relator’s salary at the rate of $2,500 per annum.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The relator had for several years prior to 1901 held the position of register of claims in the finance department of the city of New York, receiving as compensation therefor the sum of $1,400 per year., In the month of April, 1901, the relator was transferred from the finance department to the police department as a clerk in the fourth grade, as scheduled in rule 37 of the civil service rules, with an annual compensation of $1,500, that sum being the maximum compensation attached to the position. In August, 1901, the police commissioner directed that the compensation of the relator…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People ex rel. Lodholz v. KnoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- People Ex Rel. Lodholz v. . KnoxNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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