Case Name: PEOPLE ex rel. LEARY, Respondent, v. KNOX et al., Civil Service Com'rs, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1900-11-09
Citations: 67 N.Y.S. 1142
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE ex rel. LEARY, Respondent, v. KNOX et al., Civil Service Com’rs, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 67
Pages: 1142–1142

Head Matter:
PEOPLE ex rel. LEARY, Respondent, v. KNOX et al., Civil Service Com’rs, Appellants.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
November 9, 1900.)
Application by the people of the state of New York, on relation of John P. Leary, against Charles H. Knox and others, commissioners constituting the civil service commission of the city of New York, for-mandamus to compel the latter to certify on the pay roll of the applicant that he was on a certain date promoted to the position of roundsman of the police force of the city of New York. From an order granting the writ, defendants appeal.
Reversed.
Theodore Connoly, for appellant.
Abram I. Elkus, for respondent.

Opinion:
INGRAHAM, J.
For the reasons stated in the case of People v. Knox (Sup.) 66 N. Y. Supp. 984, the order appealed from is reversed, and motion denied, with costs.
VAN BRUNT, P. J., and PATTERSON, J., concur.