Tanis v. County of Passaic

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

Plaintiffs were jail keepers of the County of Passaic during the years 1933, 1934 and 1935. Pursuant to the authority of chapter 13 of the Laws of 1933 (Pamph. L., p. 26; see, also, chapter 446 of the same session laws, p. 1244) and like subsequent enactments (see chapter 2, Pamph. L. 1935, p. 12), the local board of chosen freeholders, in a general retrenchment of salaries for that period, reduced their salaries twenty-five per centum and those of the court attendants twenty per centum. Chapter 255 of the Laws of 1927 (Pamph. L., p. 474),…