Mayor of Newark v. Fordyce

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The prosecutors of this writ of certio7-ari are the city of Newark and its board of fire commissioners. The writ directs the civil service commissioners to certify to this court their action adjudging that a certain resolution of the board of fire commissioners reducing five battalion chiefs to the rank and salary of captains was without legal power. The return certifies the opinion of the civil service commission to the foregoing effect based upon an opinion of the attorney-general. This opinion of the civil service commission cannot be…