37 N.Y.S. 152 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1896
The commissioner of jurors, although appointed by the mayor under section 106 of the Consolidation Act (Laws of 1882, chap. 410), is not the head of a department within -section 48 of that act. The office does not relate to the municipal government of the city of New York, is no part of the legislative or executive government of the city, and is in no sense a department of the city government.
Section 48 of the Consolidation Act, upon which the relator relies, is a part of chapter 3 of the act. Chapter 2 is entitled : “ The corporate powers and their distribution.” And section 34, after providing for the legislative and executive departments, enumerates the other departments of the city of New York, of which the com
We think it clear, therefore, that the respondent had power to remove the relator at any time, at pleasure and without cause. The proceeding, therefore, must be dismissed with fifty dollars costs.
Van Brunt, P. J., Barrett, Bumsey and Williams, JJ.,. concurred.
Proceeding dismissed, with fifty dollars costs.