Scheiber v. Hodson

The petitioner, having passed a civil service examination, was appointed to the position of social investigator in the department of welfare of the city of New York on March 17, 1938. After his probationary period of three months he was accepted as a permanent employee. He was served on January 5, 1939, with charges in writing which in substance are as follows: (1) Violation of the departmental and city regulation forbidding employees of the department of welfare to engage in outside employment; (2) insubordination in refusing to relinquish his field book when informed that he had been…