98 N.Y.S. 40 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1906
The order from which this appeal is taken requires the appellant, as police commissioner of the,city of Mew York to: make a further return to a writ of certiorari 'issued to review his action in dismissing the relator, a, police captain, from the police force of the city. The writ directs the appellant to make return of “ all and singular the act, acts, proceeding and proceedings by you had in the premises, and all affidavits, writings, exhibits, documents, testimony and. other proceedings and things before you, together with your action, decision and proceedings in the removal or dismissal' .of the said
The trial' of the relator sought to be reviewed under the present writ was had before the deputy commissioner of police and thereafter the commissioner found the relator guilty and he was again dismissed from the police force. The return to the present writ does not contain as a separate 'document the three specifications upon which the relator was tried before Commissioner Partridge, nor does it contain a record of the finding or recommendation of the deputy commissioner before whom the second trial was con
The x-ight of a relator in a proceeding of this character to a further return is regulated by statute and such further return is only-allowed where the one already made does not comply with the writ. (People ex rel. Meehan v. Greene, 103 App. Div. 393.) What was directed to be returned by the writ now before us has already been stated. All that it requires concerning affidavits, writings, exhibits and documents is the production of such as were used upon the tidal or investigation. The appellant in his affidavit sweai-s that the original charges were not produced on such trial, nor were they offered in evidence and that they are not part of the record in this proceeding.
There is nothing in the writ which required the appellant to produce papers. not used on this second trial. ' The office of the writ Was performed when the appellant obeyed its. requirements. But it may be’ said that-'the original charges wei'e, used 'on this second tidal or investigation and that the appellant has found the relator guilty upon those charges. In the affidavit of the appellant it is declared that what are called the original charges' were not considered in, the final determination made by him. But if they'were, they áre in the record — it is true, not as a separate- document, but they are identified by the relator in his }xetition. As before stated, he says that"the chax-ges upon which he was tried were embraced in. five specifications, of which the first and third were new and not contained in the original charges. It is cleax*, therefore, that the oxdginal charges consisted of the three numbered in Schedule “A” of the return as the second^ fourth and fifth. If the fact that there were former charges, and their nature and the decision of the com'missioner thereon should become matexdal to the decision of the proceeding, those matters, appear without a further return.
The return as made to the present writ, was sufficient as a compliance with its requirements, hi or do we think the court -below
As no finding in writing was made by the deputy commissioner none can be returned as part of the record, and wliat he found orally is stated in the return.
The order appealed from should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.
O'Brien, P. J., Ingraham, Laughlin and Clarke, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten -dollars costs. Order filed.