Board of Trustees v. Griffin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The commissioners elected in the city of Hoboken, under the provisions of the Walsh act {Pamph. L. 1911, ch. 221) by resolution undertook to remove from cflice inter alia, the trustees of the Hoboken Cemetery, and to re-appoint as secretary of the board the then incumbent, upon the theory that by the adoption of the Walsh act the terms of all the local government boards and officials ipso facto expired, and that it thereby became the duty of the commissioners to assume their duties.

This action was predicated npon the assumption that the…