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67 A.D. 231

Doyle v. Knox

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1901-07-01

Appeal by Charles H. Knox and others, constituting the municipal civil service commission of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of July, 1901, directing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue requiring Charles H. Knox and others, constituting the municipal civil service commission of the city of New York, to certify upon a payroll of…

Decided 1901-07-01

Willard Bartlett, J. (concurring):

¶1It appears to have been the intention of the municipal civil service commission in opposing this applicationjn raise the question whether a janitor of a public school in the city of New York may lawfully employ persons not taken from the civil service eligible list' of “ cleaners ” to work for him in keeping the school clean, by sweeping, scrubbing and the performance of like labor. I desire it to be clearly understood that wé do not pass upon that question in holding that it is the duty of the commission to certify the payroll bearing the name of the relator. The duty to certify grows: out of the fact- which is undisputed in the record before us that the. relator has been appointed janitor of Public School No. 118 in the borough of Brooklyn pursuant to law and of the rules made in pursuance of law. The charge that a janitor thus appointed is acting in disregard of the law or of rules made pursuant to law in the employment of subordinate servitors in his school can only be investigated and determined in a proceeding appropriate for that purpose; and this is not such a proceeding. In this matter, therefore, we should be careful to intimate no opinion one way or the other upon the authority of a public school janitor in that respect.

¶2Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

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