Case Name: People ex rel. Heffernan v. McClave et al., Police Commissioners
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1890-01-24
Citations: 8 N.Y.S. 515
Docket Number: 
Parties: People ex rel. Heffernan v. McClave et al., Police Commissioners.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 8
Pages: 515–516

Head Matter:
People ex rel. Heffernan v. McClave et al., Police Commissioners.
(Supreme Court, General Term, First Department.
January 24, 1890.)
Municipal Corporations—Discharge of Policemen.
Where the evidence on which a policeman was dismissed is conflicting, the supreme court will not interfere with the action of the police commissioners.
Certiorari to review the action of the police commissioners in dismissing the relator, Frederick Heffernan, from the police force.
Argued before Van Brunt, P. J., and Brady and Daniels, JJ.
J. M. Tierney, for relator. J. J. Delany, for respondents.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The commissioners no doubt considered properly the evidence given to sustain the charge made against the relator, and which involved a contradiction between him and the roundsman who reported him, and who was called to sustain the charge. The commissioners having considered the evidence, and having found against the relator, we do not understand that we can interfere with it, according to the rules established by the court of last resort. For these reasons the proceedings of the commissioners should be affirmed, and the writ dismissed.