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The People of the State of New York ex rel. John H. Hurley, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Composing the Board of Police of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondents, 1904 — 179 N.Y. 544 · caselaw · US
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The People of the State of New York ex rel. John H. Hurley, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Composing the Board of Police of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondents
179 N.Y. 544·New York Court of Appeals·1904·NY
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Opinion
The People of the State of New York ex rel. John H. Hurley, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Composing the Board of Police of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondents.
People ex rel. Hurley v. Boosevelt, 56 App. Div. 626, affirmed.
(Argued June 13, 1904;
decided August 5, 1904.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 25, 1901, which dismissed a writ of certiorari and affirmed the proceedings of the defendants in dismissing the relator from the position of patrolman in the police department of the city of New York.
Royer Foster and Charles P. Dillon for appellant.
John J. Delany, Corporation Counsel (Theodore Connoly of counsel), for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur :• Parker, Ch. J., Gray, Bartlett, Martin, Yann, Cullén and Werner, JJ.