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WORKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY, MAYOR & c.

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179 U.S. 552 (1900)

21 S.Ct. 212

45 L.Ed. 314

WORKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY, MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 24, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harrington Putnam for Workman. Mr. Charles C. Burlingham was on his brief.

Mr. Theodore Connoly for the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York and Gallagher. Mr. John Whalen and Mr. James M. Ward were on his brief.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

It is clearly deducible from the record that the courts below concurred in dismissing the libel as against the fire department of the city of New York, upon the contention made in the answer of the department that under the provisions of a named statute of the State of New York, the fire department of the city of New York was neither a corporation nor a quasi-corporation...

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