Case ID: nys_155/html/1126-14.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re MYERS.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
    October 7, 1915.)
    In the matter of the application of J. Harry Myers for the removal of Warren E; Burns as a Trustee of the incorporated Village of Long Beach.
   PER CURIAM.

The authority of the court to remove a trustee or other village official is entirely a creature of statute. Under the terms of Laws 1896, c. 573—now Public Officers Law (Consol. Laws, c. 47) § 36—the court can remove only for “misconduct, maladministration, malfeasance or malversation in office.” This limits our power to official acts. This power of removal is therefore different from that exercised by the Governor in removing county officials (Public Officers Law, § 32), as the executive is not under such limitation as to the ground for removal. As the amended petition sets up acts prior to election, and not misconduct in office, no case is made for the action of this court. Demurrer by the respondent is therefore sustained, and application for his removal dismissed, with costs.