State ex rel. Steelman v. Vickers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto, in the. name of’ the attorney general, at the instance of private relators.

The object of the procedure is to test the legal right of the defendant to the office of common councilman of the municipality called in the pleadings “ The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Somers Point.”

The information shows that this borough is a de facto corporation ; that in the year 1886 it was organized by virtue of the act entitled “An act for the formation of borough governments in sea-side…