State v. Board of Police Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

The state of the case agreed on by counsel shows these facts: that the police commissioners of the city of Newark were appointed by the mayor, and their appointment confirmed by the council, under the “Act to remove the fire and police departments in the cities of this state from political control,” approved May 2d, 1885 (Pamph. L., p. 326), which act was adopted by a vote of the city as therein required; that of the four commissioners, two were selected from each of the two political parties which had cast and polled the greatest number of…