General
In the Matter of the Application of Mary Helena Tompkins, Individually, Frederic De P. Foster and Central Union Trust Company of New York, as Executors and Trustees, etc., of Charles H. Leland, Deceased, and John T. G. Finn, Respondents, for an Order of Mandamus against Henry Bruckner, as President of the Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, Appellant
223 A.D. 831·New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division·1928·NY
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Opinion
In the Matter of the Application of Mary Helena Tompkins, Individually, Frederic De P. Foster and Central Union Trust Company of New York, as Executors and Trustees, etc., of Charles H. Leland, Deceased, and John T. G. Finn, Respondents, for an Order of Mandamus against Henry Bruckner, as President of the Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, Appellant
Affd., 248 N. Y. 594.
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Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs. Petitioners’ relief is through sections 432 to 436 of the Greater New York Charter. Present — Dowling, P. J., Merrell, Finch, McAvoy and Proskauer, JJ.
See Laws of 1901, chap. 466, § 432-436, as amd. by Laws of 1919, chap. 323; Laws of 1920, chap. 787; Laws of 1922, chap. 565, and Laws of 1923, chap. 171.