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80 A.D. 167

Jones v. Willcox

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1903-07-01

Appeal by the petitioner, James E. Jones, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of November, 1902, denying a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the respondent to reinstate the petitioner as superintendent of small parks or to be transferred to the position of assistant superintendent of parks or to any branch of the municipal civil service for duty…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1939

2 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1903-07-01

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Ingraham, J. (dissenting) :

¶1I dissent from the reversal of this order and the awarding of an alternative writ of mandamus. The relator made an application for a peremptory writ upon affidavits. He asked for no alternative writ, but in the court below rested his right to be reinstated upon the facts appearing upon the application. The court denied his application upon these facts, and of this determination the prevailing opinion approves. I can see no reason why upon appeal, when the case was correctly decided below, the order should be reversed because if the relator had asked for an alternative writ in the first instance he would have been entitled to it. He made no such demand, but ; rested his right to be reinstated upon the facts as they appeared; and when properly defeated upon that application, we are not, I think, justified in reversing the order.

¶2Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and alternative writ issued as directed in opinion.

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