McBride v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 26th day of June, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff- sues for salary as nurse in the Randall’s Island Asylum under the charge of the department of charities of the city *521of New York. The city rejects the claim on the ground that the plaintiff’s employment was illegal, being in violation of the Civil Service Law (Laws of 1899, chap. 370). The plaintiff was appointed by the department on May twenty-seventh as “ Nurse at a salary of $240 per annum, vice Sallie L. Stoudt, action to date May 25th. (Temporary emergency — subject to civil service.)” Before her appointment the department wrote the secretary of the civil…
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