Rindone v. Marsh

Petitioners seek, inter alia, an order directing that the date of their appointment as messenger-attendants in the Department of Welfare be corrected from December 16, 1941, to May 31,1941. In Matter of Staples v. Kern (282 N. Y. 205), the Court of Appeals held that the present petitioners and those similarly situated, all of whom were provisional employees of the Emergency Relief Bureau, had been improperly denied an opportunity to participate in an examination for the position of messenger-attendants and that the Municipal Civil Service Commission, acting under a provision of its rules…