In re Murray
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, John J. Murray, 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 18th day of August, 1896, denying his motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the respondent to recognize and appoint him as a patrolman in the police department in the city of Brooklyn.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The charter of the city of Brooklyn provides that all appointments of patrolmen on the police force shall be made for a probationary period of six months, and that at the expiration of such probationary period the commissioner of police shall appoint to a *338permanent position all persons whom, during such probationary period, he shall ascertain to be competent to fill the position of patrolmen. (§ 7, tit. 11, chap. 583, Laws of 1888, as amended by chap. 695, Laws of 1893.)
Under this provision of law the appellant, on the 8th day of January, 1896, was appointed a patrolman.…
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