# People ex rel. Goodwin v. MacLean

> New York Supreme Court · November 13, 1891 · 16 N.Y.S. 401

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5501632

## Case

- **Full name:** People ex rel. Goodwin v. MacLean, Police Commissioners
- **Court:** New York Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 13, 1891
- **Citations:** 16 N.Y.S. 401; 69 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 42; 41 N.Y. St. Rep. 162; 62 Hun 42; 1891 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 526
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Brunt
- **Judges:** Brunt, Ingraham
- **Cited by:** 6 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Van Brunt, P. J.
I concur in the result of Mr. Justice Ingraham’s opinion. If the proper question has been presented upon the mandamus proceedings a different result might have been obtained. If the so-called “resignation” was altered and added to, as is claimed by the relator, it was no resignation at all, as such alterations were fraudulent, and could not alter the character of the paper, and in fact destroyed whatever vitality it might have possessed. The order appealed from does not follow the alternative writ, and for that reason, if for no other, should be reversed.

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