Rutten v. Mayor of Paterson

The following are the conclusions of

Pitney, J.

The writ of certiorari herein brings under review the action of William H. Belcher, formerly mayor of Paterson, in appointing commissioners to divide the city into wards, and the proceedings taken by the commissioners thus appointed, including the report made by them in writing, by which they assumed to make such a division.

At and before the proceedings now under review Paterson was a city of the second class, and consisted of eleven wards. Its governing body is a board of aldermen, composed of two members elected from each ward. Winters v.…