Murphy v. Bd. Chosen Freeholders, Bergen Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lloyd, J.

In these cases rules were given to the prosecutors to show cause why writs of certiorari should not be allowed to review an order made by George P. Losche, Esquire, and the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Bergen in July, 1931, discharging them as investigators in the prosecutor’s office of that county, and removing their names from the county payroll.

Both men were appointed in the summer of 1930, by the then prosecutor, Edward O. West; Mr. West was superseded in the prosecutor’s office by George Hobart, Esquire, and he in turn, in…