Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Patrick W. Walsh, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against William B. Patterson, as City Manager of the City of Auburn, and the Council of the City of Auburn, Consisting of Kirk Bowen, Mayor, and Others, Councilmen, Respondents, for Reinstatement as an Employee
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-05-17
Citations: 257 A.D. 917
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Patrick W. Walsh, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against William B. Patterson, as City Manager of the City of Auburn, and the Council of the City of Auburn, Consisting of Kirk Bowen, Mayor, and Others, Councilmen, Respondents, for Reinstatement as an Employee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 257
Pages: 917–917

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Patrick W. Walsh, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against William B. Patterson, as City Manager of the City of Auburn, and the Council of the City of Auburn, Consisting of Kirk Bowen, Mayor, and Others, Councilmen, Respondents, for Reinstatement as an Employee.

Opinion:
— Orders affirmed, without costs of this appeal to any party. Memorandum: Once before the relator had an order of mandamus herein, which, upon appeal to this court, was reversed, (239 App. Div. 757.) In that proceeding relator did not show whether or not his name appeared upon any labor " list " kept by the city of Auburn. (Civil Service Law, § 18, 21.) In the present proceeding relator shows, by his petition, that no such list is even kept, and he does not show that he ever asked to have his name placed upon any such list. Relator is in no better position than before. His place upon a list that does not exist cannot be determined. (Matter of Neubeck v. Bard, 275 N. Y. 43.) All concur. (One order denies an application for an alternative writ of mandamus, and the other order denies an application for an order of mandamus, in a proceeding to compel respondents to reinstate petitioner as a laborer in the water department in the city of Auburn.) Present — Sears, P. J., Crosby, Cunningham, Taylor and Dowling, JJ. [157 Misc. 713.]