Byrnes v. Boulevard Commissioners

Brown, C. C. J.

The above entitled canse was tried before the court without a jury upon the pleadings and an agreed state of facts. The plaintiffs are fifty-eight in number, fifty-seven of whom were within the classified service of the Civil Service act and one, the head of the police department of the Hudson county boulevard commission, in the unclassified service as defined in that act. The suit is brought to recover salaries from the time of the alleged illegal discharge of the plaintiffs by the Hudson county park commission to the time of their reinstatement by the defendant boulevard…