Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Cohen v. York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1899PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 21st day of December, 1898, directed to Bernard J. York and others, composing the hoard of police commissioners of the city of New York, requiring them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings had in refusing to grant the relator a rehearing upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence.

1Opinion of the Court

Patterson, J.:

The relator ceased to be a member of the police force in February, 1895, he having then been dismissed from it upon a charge which had been preferred against him and upon which he was tried. On the trial he was represented by his counsel, his defense was put in, and he was duly found guilty. The proceedings upon that trial were reviewed by certiorari in this court, and the action of the commissioners was affirmed in June, 1897. (People ex rel. Cohen v. Martin, 20 App. Div. 380.) On the 21st of September, 1898, the relator presented a petition to the police board of the city of *139Ne…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Cohen v. MartinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
  2. People ex rel. Goodwin v. MartinNew York Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Evans v. MonaghanNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  2. State ex rel. Worsham v. BrownWashington Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Hyland v. WaldoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
  4. Schieffelin v. DolanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
  5. Claim of Conley v. Upson Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921

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