Meachem v. Common Council

*122The opinion of the court was delivered by

G-arretson, J.

This writ brings up the proceedings of the common council of the city of New Brunswick as to the investigation of the right of the prosecutor to a seat in that body and the action of the common council in declaring that seat vacant.

At the meeting of January 2d, 1905, a protest, dated on that day, signed by one Lewis A. Board, who seems to have been the opposing candidate at the election, was presented against the seating of the prosecutor as a member, for the reason that he had not been duly elected. It further sets forth that on November…