Opinion
May, 1913.
Appeal by relator from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk's office on the 23d day of January, 1913, and also from an order entered on the 18th day of January, 1913, sustaining a demurrer to an alternative writ of mandamus, with leave to obtain an alternative writ.
Present — Ingraham, P.J., Clarke, Scott, Dowling and Hotchkiss, JJ.
The commissioner of charities removed the relator after due service of notice of charges upon him, and after affording him an opportunity for explanation. The charges were substantial. The commissioner found the explanation insufficient. The proceedings taken were in conformity with the provisions of the statute. Under such circumstances the court will not review, in a mandamus proceeding, the action of the commissioner and determine whether he ought to have been satisfied with the explanation tendered. The demurrer to the alternative writ was properly sustained, but the order and the interlocutory judgment should not have granted leave to obtain a further writ upon the petition as filed. The judgment and order appealed from should, therefore, be modified by striking out the leave granted, and as so modified affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Judgment and order modified as directed in opinion, and as modified affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. Order to be settled on notice.