Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 28, 1908 (People ex rel. Burns v. Baker)

Gaynor, J.:

The relator was. promoted from patrolman to roundsman for an act of heroic conduct in pursuing and taking a murderer at great personal risk. How, having entered a competitive examination by the municipal civil service commissioners to get on the eligible list for promotion to another grade, i. e.