People ex rel. Miller v. Peck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, James D. Miller, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Onondaga Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 13th day of January, 1902, vacating and quashing a writ of certiorari theretofore granted and issued upon the petition of the relator. The order appealed from was granted before any return to the wilt had been 2nade and filed.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
The writ which was quashed was issued upon the application of relator for the purpose of reviewing the decision of the defendant, as commissioner of public safety of the city of Syracuse, whereby it was held in substance that the relator, a 2iiember of the police force of said city, had been guilty of neglect of duty for which he should be and was dismissed from the force.
The Í2nportant question involved upon the motion to quash the writ and upon this appeal was, and is, whether the provision of section 184, chapter 182, Laws of 1898, being “ An act for the govermne2it of cities…
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