People ex rel. Coit v. Wheeler

The relator, Coit, asks that the' defendants, constituting the municipal civil service commission of the city of Buffalo, be .directed by a writ of mandamus to exempt the position of registrar 'in the bureau of water in said city from- examination under the civil service rules, and to certify the appointment of said Ooit as such registrar.

At the outset the objection is interposed that mandamus is not the proper remedy; that, as the commission has placed the position in the competitive class, its determination upon that subject is judicial in its "nature and can be reviewed, if at all, only by…