State ex rel. Haight v. Love

The opinion of the court was delivered by,

Dixon, J.

The Attorney-General, at the instance of John B. Haight, the relator, filed an information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, against the defendant, James H. Love, for the purpose of testing the right of the defendant to the ■office of city collector of Jersey City.

The information sets out, as the basis upon which the defendant rests his claim'to the office, the following facts : That the defendant was appointed city collector on May 7th, 1872, under the charter of Jersey City, passed March 31st, 1871, *15by force of which, his term of…