Brooklyn Teachers' Ass'n v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The Brooklyn Teachers’ Association and others from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 9th day of February, 1903, denying said appellants’ motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Dissent
Goodrich, P. J. (dissenting):
I dissent from the judgment of my associates, as expressed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Woodward, written after I had formulated my reasons in the following opinion.
The Special Term has denied this motion for a writ of mandamus, as stated in the order, “ not in the exercise of the court’s discretion, but upon the ground that, as a matter of law, the petitioners are not entitled to any relief.”
• In 1889 Mr. William H. Maxwell, then superintendent of public instruction in the city of Brooklyn (now city superintendent of schools of the city of New York), by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cassidy v. YoungCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1891
- In re StebbinsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899