Clayton v. Kervick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

The defendant John A. Kerviek, State Treasurer of New Jersey, appealed to the Appellate Division from a partial summary judgment entered in the Law Division. We certified the matter before argument in the Appellate Division.

In June 1963 Governor Hughes announced the appointment of a committee to review New Jersey’s higher education facilities with a view towards overall policy recommendations. In due course, the committee submitted a report which noted that New Jersey’s higher education program was “gravely inadequate to meet the needs of its…