State ex rel. Brown v. Cline

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This information charges the defendant with usurping the office of secretary to the commissioners of public instruction in the city of Camden. It sets out that the commissioners were organized under the act of March 10th, 1892 (Gen. Stat., p. 3096); that under the supplement of March 29th, 1897 (Pamph. L., p. 120), the commission, on April 19th, 1897, fixed the term of secretary to the board at three years, and forthwith elected the relator to that office;, that the relator at once entered into the office and continued to hold it until May 2d,…