Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York April 15, 1900 (People ex rel. Percival v. Cram)

lead-opinion

Goodrich, P. J.:

The relator, on September 14, 1899, obtained an order directing the defendants herein to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue commanding the said defendants, as commissioners of the department of docks and ferries of the city of New York, to reinstate and assign him permanently to a district in the borough of Brooklyn, to put his name on the