State ex rel. Stewart v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The relator complains that, being deputy warden of the Hudson county almshouse, he was, on December 17th; 1896, dismissed from that place by resolution of the board of chosen freeholders, without good cause shown after a fair and impartial hearing, although he is an honorably-discharged Union soldier who served in the war of the rebellion; and he prays a mandamus directing the board to restore him.

His claim depends upon the act of March 14th, 1895 (Gen. Stat., p. ,3702), which enacts that no honorably-discharged Union soldier, sailor or…