Trainor v. Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

MUIR, J.A.D.

Defendant Burlington County Board of Freeholders appeals from a Law Division decision holding that it must accept the entire annual certified budget of third-party defendant Burlington County Election Board with no discretion to modify unless it successfully challenges the budget in a judicial proceeding.

The holding followed litigation reported at 200 N.J.Super. 288 (Law Div.1984) and resolved a claim by the election board, *291raised by way of notice of motion to enforce litigant’s rights under R. 1:10-5, that the freeholder board had to…