Marks v. County of Monmouth

By resolution at its first meeting, January 2d, 1934, the board of freeholders of Monmouth county directed that “in the interest of economy” certain “positions of employment” be abolished. They were seven in number: those now pertinent were of two assistant superintendents of weights and measures, one held by prosecutor Marks, the other by prose*561cutor Goodrich. They sued out the two writs now before us, and urge that as to them the resolution in question be set aside.

Two points are made. The first is that the positions were created by act of legislature, and that there is no statutory…