Bumsted v. Blair

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

The certiorari allowed in this case we think must be dismissed.

The prosecutor in the writ was a former excise commissioner of Jersey City. He claims that he is still in office, notwithstanding that by section 5 of the act of the legislature, entitled “A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to regulate *379the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and brewed liquors, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to regulate the sale of intoxicating and brewed liquors,” passed March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, approved March twentieth,…