Opinion
October 13, 1987
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Lockman, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The statements contained in a pleading must be sufficiently particular to give the court and parties notice of the transactions or occurrences to be proved and must support the material elements of the cause of action (see, DiMauro v Metropolitan Suburban Bus Auth., 105 A.D.2d 236, 239). The instant petition failed to include all the essential facts necessary to give such notice or to support its conclusory allegations. Moreover, to maintain a petition in the nature of mandamus, the petitioner must have a clear right to the relief requested (see, Matter of Jahn v. Town of Patterson, 23 A.D.2d 688). As an individual on a preferred list, the petitioner has no clear right to the reemployment she seeks (see, Matter of Hartley v. Human Resources Admin., 132 A.D.2d 699). Special Term, therefore, acted properly in dismissing the petition. Mangano, J.P., Bracken, Brown and Niehoff, JJ., concur.