State v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

*405The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

An examination of the return to the writ and of the testimony submitted therewith has satisfied me that the prosecutor’s case is without merit. *

He seeks to have declared illegal a contract entered into by the board of freeholders of Passaic county with the firm of Keepers & Thatcher, bridge builders, for the construction of a. concrete and steel arch bridge over the Passaic river, at West street, in the city of Paterson. The propriety of building a bridge, its location, the materials of which it shall be built and to whom the contract for…