Reid v. Gorsuch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This is a controversy between rival claimants

for the office of town treasurer of the town of Kearny. The town was incorporated by virtue of an act of the legislature approved March 23d, 1898 (Pamph. L., p. 150), which, by its terms, was to take effect whenever the inhabitants should accept the provisions of the general act for the' formation, *397establishment and government of towns, approved March 7th,, 1895 (Pamph. L., p. 218; Gen. Stat., p. 3525), and the supplements thereto, in the manner therein provided, at any special or charter election…