State ex rel. Sibbald v. Brickell

*421The opinion of the court was delivered by

The Chancellor.

The substantial controversy in this case is as to the right to the office of assessor of the borough of Park Ridge, in Bergen county. The facts are that the borough became a body corporate upon the 1st of June, 1894, when the certificate of the result of the election for incorporation, pursuant to the provisions of the act for the formation of borough governments, approved April 5th, 1878, and its supplements (Gen. Stat., p. 179), was filed with the county clerk; that on the 7th of August, 1894, at an election duly held for the first…