State v. Mayor of Newark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

The prosecutor in this case seeks, by this proceeding, to have reviewed the action of the common council of the city of Newark, and of the finance committee of that *523body, on May 15th and 17th, 1895, removing him, without cause and without a hearing, from the position of clerk, in the office of the auditor of said city, which he had held since July 1st, 1892.

The prosecutor claims to be an honorably-discharged Union soldier, and as such insists that the action of the common council and its finance committee, in removing him from his position,…