People ex rel. Van Petten v. Cobb
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Williard A. Cobb and others, constituting the New York Civil Service Commission, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the lltli day of November, 1896, directing the issuance of a -peremptory writ of mandamus requiring them to place the name of the relator on the list of persons eligible to be appointed as special agents under chapter 112 of the Laws of…
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Appeal by the defendants, Williard A. Cobb and others, constituting the New York Civil Service Commission, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the lltli day of November, 1896, directing the issuance of a -peremptory writ of mandamus requiring them to place the name of the relator on the list of persons eligible to be appointed as special agents under chapter 112 of the Laws of 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J. :
The New York Civil Service Commission appeal from an order granted at Special Term, directing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue requiring it to restore the name of the relator, John B.
Van Petten, to the list of persons eligible to be appointed as special agent under the “ Liquor Tax Law.”
On June 20,1896, a notice having been duly given that an examination for applicants for appointment as special agents under the *57“ Liquor Tax Law ” would take place before the Civil Service Commission at Albany, Van Petten, an honorably discharged Union soldier, applied for entrance to the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Matter of KeymerNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- People Ex Rel. Chase v. . WempleNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
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- People ex rel. Kittenger v. Board of Civil Service CommissionersNew York Supreme Court · 1897
- People ex rel. Doran v. GallagherNew York Supreme Court · 1913
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