Wyse v. Board of Police Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hendrickson, J.

The prosecutor, who is one of the coroners of the county of Hudson, seeks to have certain rules of the defendant board set aside as infringing upon his rights and duties as such officer, touching the control and disposal of the bodies of those found within his jurisdiction who have met with violent, sudden or casual deaths.

The rules in question, as appears by the return to the writ, were adopted for the government of the Jersey City police department November 16th, 1900, and read as follows:

“Rule 56.

“Dead bodies of persons found in the…