Wright v. Town Board of the Town of Ticonderoga

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Dier, J.), entered April 23, 1990 in Essex County, which, inter alia, dismissed petitioner’s application, in a pro*913ceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to compel respondent Town Board of the Town of Ticonderoga to remove the Town’s Chief of Police.

John Wade served as Police Chief for the Village of Pulaski in Oswego County from 1981 until he was provisionally appointed Police Chief of the Town of Ticonderoga in Essex County in January 1990. Despite a requirement that police officers promoted to first-line supervisory positions…