Spears v. Board of Commissioners

Pee Cubiam.

These cases are before this court upon two writs of certiorari allowed to review the action of the board of commissioners of North Bergen in abolishing the positions of the prosecutors and dismissing them from the service of. the township. The prosecutors are nine firemen in one writ and twenty-six policemen in the other, all of whose positions were abolished.

The positions held by the prosecutors were created on December 31st, 1930, by the administration then in control of the affairs of the township. This group continued in control until .May 19th, 1931, when the so-called reform…