Legal Opinion

Manahan v. Watts

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided March 5, 1900PublishedCited by 9 opinions

On quo warranto. On demurrer to plea.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippincott, J.

This is a contest over the office of membership of the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Middlesex, from the borough of South River in that county.

*467The information sets out the creation of the borough of South River by act of the legislature, approved February 28th, 1898 (Pamph. L., p. 35), and that it contained at the time of its organization a population of not less than three thousand inhabitants, and therefore, by the general act of the legislature relating to boroughs, approved April 24th, 1897 (Pamph. L., p. 285, § 2), it…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. People ex relat. Bush & Higby v. CollinsNew York Supreme Court · 1811
  2. Martin v. BarbourSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  3. United States v. Le BaronSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
  4. People v. RichardsonNew York Supreme Court · 1825
  5. State ex rel. Kempf v. BoalSupreme Court of Missouri · 1870

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
  2. Haack v. RanieriNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1964
  3. Burke v. KennyNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1950
  4. Anderson v. MyersSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1908
  5. Rosell v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1902

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