County of Essex v. Civil Service Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The writ of certiorari allowed in this case brings before us for review the validity of an order made by the civil service commission of ISTew Jersey directing the county supervisor of the county of Essex and the board of *672chosen freeholders of Essex county to reinstate Peter Earley to the position of head laundryman, in the Essex County Hospital for Contagious Diseases, and from which position he was dismissed by Lewis G. Bowden, the county supervisor.

After Earley was dismissed, he applied to the civil service commission for a review of the…