MATTER OF RAHILL v. BRONSTEIN


32 N.Y.2d 417 (1973)

In the Matter of Francis J. Rahill, Jr. et al., Appellants, v. Harry Bronstein et al., Constituting the Department of Personnel and the Civil Service Commission of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 31, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Allen for appellants.

Norman Redlich, Corporation Counsel (Edmund B. Hennefeld and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for respondents.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BREITEL, JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES and WACHTLER concur.


BURKE, J.

At issue on this appeal is the right of honorably discharged members of the reserve components of the various branches of the armed forces, who served therein during time of war, to veterans' preference credits on civil service examinations pursuant to article V (§ 6) of the State Constitution and section 85 of the Civil Service Law. While this question was previously resolved in favor of the reservists...

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