Dodd v. Foster

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, Chief Justice.

The information sets out the appointment of relator to the office of chief of police of the city of Camden, his acceptance of t'he office and his ouster therefrom by defendant under an appointment subsequent to the passage of a resolution of the city council dismissing relator from office.

*371Relator claims by the information that the sole power to dismiss him from the said office was vested in the mayor of the city and had not been exercised by him. On this ground he asserts that defendant has usurped and intruded into the •offic3…