Fantl v. City of Newark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burling, J.

This is a civil action. Plaintiff, Morris Fantl, instituted the action in the Superior Court, Law Division, to recover moneys allegedly due him as “sick leave” pay from the defendant City of Newark. From an adverse judgment in the trial court the defendant appealed to the Superior Court, Appellate Division. Prior to hearing there we allowed certification of the appeal to this court upon our own motion.

Morris Fantl, the plaintiff, was employed by the defendant City of Newark as a butcher at the city hospital from September 1914 until his…