Case ID: ny-sup-ct_96/html/0604-08.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pratt, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Daniel Dougherty, Relator, v. Frederick W. Wurster, Fire Commissioner, etc., Respondent.
    Determination confirmed, without costs.—
   Pratt, J.:

Relator cannot be properly said to be a member of the force for extinguishment of fires, hut was employed as his appointment shows as a laborer. Taking the case of People ex rel. Crafts v. The Fire Commissioners (28 Hun, 495) as the true interpretation of the law, the relator cannot be said to be a member of the fire force, but comes under the designation of those who can he removed with charge and a trial. Writ quashed.

Brown, P. J. and Dykman, J., concurred.