In re Walker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the ■petitioner, Emma Walker, from a final order of the Supreme Court, made at the Queens County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 2d day of March, .1907, denying the petitioner’s motion for a . peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Garretson, J.:
• Upon the uncontroverted facts/it would seem that the relator would be entitled to tlie relief -which she seeks in this proceeding but for the fact that on the 1st day' of January, 1898, when the Greater New York charter went into effect, she was not a teacher in any of the civil divisions consolidated and merged into the greater city. Relator was first. licensed to teach July 1, 1871, by the city superintendent of public schools' in the former city of Brooklyn, and again on June 7, 1879, by the city superintendent of the former city, of New York. It may be assumed that she…
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