Borger v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

Pee Curiam.

The relator holds an alternative writ of mandamus to which a return has been made followed by a demurrer on the part of the relator and a joinder in demurrer on the part of the respondents.

Frank Borger, the relator, is in the employ of the county of Bergen, serving under the sheriff of that county as head keeper of the county jail. He has had this employment for sixteen years, having been appointed at the age of thirty-five and is now in his fifty-first year.

On December. 12th, 1934, the board of chosen freeholders of Bergen county passed a resolution permitting the keepers employed…