Case Details
- Status
- Published
- Procedural Posture
- appeal
Outcome
The court affirmed the denial of the writ of mandate, upholding the fire department's regulations requiring firemen to consume meals together during 24-hour duty shifts as a valid exercise of employer authority to maintain discipline and morale.
Excerpt
<p>Appeal from special term, ¡New York county.</p> <p>Action by Ada Bennett against William H. Wright to have certain mortgages satisfied of record. From an order enjoining defendant from interfering or intermeddling with certain chattels mortgaged by the plaintiff to*defendant, defendant appeals. Modified.</p> <p>The complainant alleges that plaintiff bought $3,200 worth of furniture, fixtures, and chattels of Elliott & Congle, and paid at various times by check, cash, and return of furniture a sum equal to this amount; that five months after th'e purchase of furniture, Elliott & Congle, by their agents, secured through fraud, trick, and device a mortgage on these chattels to defendant of $3,179.51, and at several other times subsequent to this mortgage secured three other mortgages in same manner to defendant amounting, with the first one, to $5,560.21.</p>
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