State Ex Rel. Wm. Eckelmann, Inc. v. Jones

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court, Law Division, dismissing an information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto. The appeal was taken to the Appellate Division and was certified by this Court on its own motion.

The plaintiff challenges the right of the defendant to hold office as a patrolman in the police department of Ridgefield Park, a village governed by the provisions of the Walsh Act (R. S. 40 :Y0-1 et seq.) but which had never adopted the Civil Service Act (R. S. 11:19-1 et seq.). In 1939 the village…