Legg v. County of Passaic

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

Plaintiff, a coroner of Passaic county, presented a claim against the county for “viewing” some thirteen dead bodies. B. S. 22:4-6. Payment being refused, this suit was brought; and the defense was, in substance, that in Passaic county there was a county physician, pursuant to the act of 1876 (Comp. Stat., p. 1704; R. S. 40:21-23 et seq.); that by the act of 1878, amended in 1885 (Comp. Stat., p. 1705, pl. 6) in counties where there is a county physician, the coroner is not entitled to any fee for viewing a body except by written order of the…