City of Newark v. Civil Service Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The writ brings up for review an order of the civil service commission setting aside the proceedings whereby Joseph A. Ward, an attorney and counselor-at-law, was removed from the position of legal assistant in the law department of the city of Newark, and directing Ward’s reinstatement.

The city law department was established by an ordinance adopted January 27th, 1921, the language of which followed closely that of the authorizing statute. Pamph. L. 1920, eh. 65. Both the ordinance and the statute directed that the legal assistants should be…