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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of Patrick Foley, Clayton Haff, Charles Schelling, Charles Tunnell, James Ciminera, Kenneth Donnelly, Robert Milford, Robert W. Hawthorne, George H. Lee, Harold A. Henry, Steven Pisarski, Hugo Klammer, Leonard Dougherty, Elmer J. Breitenbecker and William Adams, Appellants, to Compel the Performance of a Duty and to Restrain, Pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Act, Abram W. Skidmore, as Commissioner of Police of the County of Nassau, New York, Richard H. Brown and Others, Constituting the Civil Service Commission of the County of Nassau, New York, Theodore W. Bedell, Jr., as Comptroller of the County of Nassau, and The County of Nassau, Respondents, and William C. Fisher, Francis B. Looney, Solomon J. Ozarin, Robert B. Rofheart, T. Leonard Solomon, Dominic F. Sabatella, Frank G. Pribyl, William Colbert, Bernard L. Cohen, John B. Marshut, James L. W. Mount, Harry M. Clavin, Jr., Vincent P. Carney and Charles F. Steuer, Intervenors, Respondents.
   Petitioners instituted a proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act (a) to enjoin permanently the commissioner of police of a county from discharging them from employment as patrolmen of the county police department; (b) to compel the county civil service commission to place the names of petitioners on the eligible list as such patrolmen and to certify their names on the payroll as such for the salary heretofore received by them; and (c) to compel the comptroller of the county to audit the claims of petitioners for salary. The court at Special Term denied the application, dismissed the proceeding on the merits, and directed payment of petitioners’ salaries to the date of their dismissal. Order, in so far as appealed from, unanimously affirmed, without costs. No opinion. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Hagarty, Carswell, Adel and Taylor, JJ.