Case Name: In the Matter of Manuel Formoso, Appellant, against Stephen P. Kennedy, as Commissioner of Police of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1958-11-13
Citations: 5 N.Y.2d 830
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Manuel Formoso, Appellant, against Stephen P. Kennedy, as Commissioner of Police of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 830–832

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Manuel Formoso, Appellant, against Stephen P. Kennedy, as Commissioner of Police of the City of New York, Respondent.
Argued October 16, 1958;
decided November 13, 1958.
Charles Haydon for appellant.
Charles H. Tenney, Corporation Counsel (Leon A. Fischel and Seymour B. Quel of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, without costs. We agree with the Appellate Division that petitioner was separated from service, that is, " dropped from the rolls " of the Police Department, solely because of his resignation. It was, as the Appellate Division noted, petitioner's right not to resign and to compel a trial of any pending charges. If, as he claims, he was fraudulently induced to resign, he may apply to respondent Police Commissioner to withdraw his resignation and on such an application the circumstances of the resignation and the merits of the charges then pending against him may be inquired into. No opinion.
Concur: Chief Judge Conway and Judges Desmond, Dye, Fuld, Froessel, Van Voorhis and Burke.