Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Anthony Moors, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1925-07-15
Citations: 240 N.Y. 696
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Anthony Moors, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 240
Pages: 696–696

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Anthony Moors, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
(Argued June 3, 1925;
decided July 15, 1925.)
Civil service— New York city — mandamus to compel reinstatement of petitioner in office of deputy receiver of taxes properly denied.
Matter of Moors v. Craig, 211 App. Div. 813, affirmed.
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 12, 1924, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion for an order of mandamus to compel the reinstatement of- the petitioner in the position of deputy receiver of taxes in the finance department of the city of New York, from which position he had been removed, after a hearing on charges of neglect of duty in withholding from the comptroller information regarding an investigation by the Queens county grand jury of the conduct of the Queens office of the receiver of taxes in June, 1922.
George F. Hickey for appellant.
George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (John F. O’Brien, Elliot S. Benedict and Robert J. Culhane of counsel), for respondents.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Not voting: Cardozo and Pound, JJ.