Johnstone v. Board Chosen Freeholders of Passaic

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This is a certiorari to a resolution of the board of chosen freeholders of Passaic county, denying the application of the prosecutor for a pension as surviving husband of Elizabeth Johnstone, who in her lifetime was jail matron of the county jail, under the sheriff, and was a member of the sheriff’s employes’ pension fund, established pursuant to Pamph. L. 1927, p. 570, § 7, which was amended in 1932. Pamph. L., p. 573. The ground of the denial was that the statute gives the right to the widow of a male employe but not to a widower of a…