Burke v. Gormley
Supreme Court of New Jersey
The first entitled cause came before the court upon an application for mandamus to compel the city clerk of Jersey (biy to sign a. warrant ordered signed by the police commissioners in 1907, and the second by certiorari to review the resolution of the new board of commissioners rescinding the original order.
1Opinion of the CourtSwayze, J.
The board of police commissioners in 1907 audited and ordered paid a bill of Burke for work done and materials furnished. A city warrant was made ont by the city clerk, but before it was signed by the comptroller a new administration had come into power, and a new board of police commissioners, upon the representations of the mayor that Burke’s claims were grossly exorbitant, resolved that the resolution approving the claim and ordering that payment be made, be rescinded and revoked, and that the city clerk be directed to cancel the warrants. The city clerk thereupon *260canceled the warrants.…
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