Massett Building Co. v. Bennett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

In April, 1948, thirty-four taxpayers of Atlantic City presented their affidavit under R. S. 40:6-l to the Honorable Howard Eastwood, then a justice of the former Supreme Court, who in May entered an order directing a summary investigation into the affairs of the city. Later he entered an order appointing Harold W. Bennett of the Camden bar, and Edmund D. Bowman, a certified public accountant of Hew Jersey, as experts, under the statute, to prosecute the investigation. On September 15, 1948, the Honorable Prank T. Lloyd, Jr., was…