Donovan v. Board of Commissioners

The writ of certiorari brings up for review an ordinance abolishing the positions of the prosecutors, the official action of the director of public safety of the city of Bayonne together with resolutions adopted by the board of eommissiorors of the city of Bayonne dismissing prosecutors from *793their office of patrolman and policewoman, in the police department, and reducing the other prosecutors in rank in that department.

The record discloses this situation:

On January 2d, 1934, the board of commissioners of the city of Bayonne passed an ordinance abolishing certain positions in the police…