Behringer v. Parisi

The issue before us on this appeal is whether petitioner is a “ deputy ” within the meaning of subdivision 1 of section 22 of the Civil Service Law,* which prohibits the summary removal without cause of veterans of the armed forces (among others) from civil service positions, but which excepts from the operation of the section “the position of private secretary, cashier or deputy of any official or department” (emphasis supplied).

*150On December 1,1953 the predecessor of respondent-appellant, Chairman of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, appointed petitioner, an honorably discharged veteran of…