Case Name: PEOPLE ex rel. MALLON v. ROOSEVELT et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1897-04-09
Citations: 44 N.Y.S. 655
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE ex rel. MALLON v. ROOSEVELT et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 44
Pages: 655–659

Head Matter:
PEOPLE ex rel. MALLON v. ROOSEVELT et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
April 9, 1897.)
Policeman—Dismissal por Misconduct—Certiorari to Review.
The decision of the police commissioners dismissing a policeman will not be disturbed on certiorari, unless so clearly against the weight of evidence-as would require a verdict to be set aside.
Patterson and Rumsey, JJ., dissenting.
Certiorari by Francis Mal'lon to review the action of Theodore-Roosevelt and others, constituting the board of police commissioners of the city of New York, dismissing relator from the police force.. Dismissed.
Argued before VAN BRUNT, P. J., and RUMSEY, WILLIAMS, PATTERSON, and PARKER, JJ.
S. S. Blake, for relator.
T. Connoly and Terence Farley, for respondents.

Opinion:
PARKER, J.
We have presented on this review questions of fact only. The evidence is capable of such a presentation as to, at least, raise a doubt whether the commissioners rightly decided» those questions. In such a situation, we are to remember that the commissioners, or at least one of them, had the advantage of observing the conduct of the witnesses while giving their testimony, and to bear in mind the rule that the findings of fact made upon a trial will not be interfered with unless so clearly against the weight of evidence as would compel us to set aside a verdict of a jury. Thus proceeding, we are not called" upon to interfere with the action of the commissioners in dismissing" the relator from the force-
The writ should be dismissed, with costs.
VAN BRUNT, P. J., and WILLIAMS, J., concur.