Case Name: PEOPLE ex rel. Patrick J. McGERALD, relator, v. Arthur WOODS, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1916-06-29
Citations: 159 N.Y.S. 1135
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE ex rel. Patrick J. McGERALD, relator, v. Arthur WOODS, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 159
Pages: 1135–1135

Head Matter:
PEOPLE ex rel. Patrick J. McGERALD, relator, v. Arthur WOODS, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, respondent.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
June 29, 1916.)

Opinion:
The return to the writ of certiorari is defective, inasmuch as it does not set forth the legal authority of the officer who made the determination to remove relator from the police force of the city of New York. No presumption of jurisdiction arises in this case. People ex rel. Hayes v. Waldo, 212 N. Y. 156, 172, 105 N. E. 961. A new return is therefore directed in which respondent may set forth, if the circumstances warrant it, the authority of the officer who made the determination dismissing the relator, under section 270 of the Greater New York Charter (Laws 1901, e. 466). Jenks, P. J., and Carr, Mills, Rich, and Putnam, JJ., concur.