State v. City of Orange

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

This writ of error brings up the judgment of the Supreme Court dismissing a writ of certiorari allowed on behalf of Frank Hardy, to review the following resolution of the common council of the city of Orange, passed July 12th, 1897:

*621“Resolved, By the common council of the city of Orange, that George W. Gray be and he is hereby appointed keeper of the reservoir for three years, from August 1st, 1897, to succeed Frank Hardy, whose term expired June 1st, 1897.”

Hardy, the prosecutor, who is an honorably-discharged Union soldier, was appointed…