Stockton ex rel. Smith v. Regan
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. The question in this case was presented to the Supreme Court upon demurrer to the plea of the defendant in error to the information exhibited by the attorney general.
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On error to the Supreme Court. The question in this case was presented to the Supreme Court upon demurrer to the plea of the defendant in error to the information exhibited by the attorney general. The facts admitted by the pleadings are: That at the several annual stated meetings of the boards of chosen freeholders of the county of Essex, holden on the second Wednesday of May in each of the years 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889, the relator below, Joseph M. Smith, a freeholder and resident in the county named, was elected its county collector, and immediately after each election gave bond as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The Chancellor.
The validity of the claim of the relator below to the office in dispute, under the admitted facts, turns upon a question of statutory construction. The act “ in regard to honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors holding public office or position,” passed April 9th, 1889 (Pamph. L., p. 231), provides, among other things, that no such soldier or sailor who holds a public salaried office under the government of a county of this state, the term of which is not fixed by law, shall be removed therefrom except for good cause shown after…
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