110 A.2d 93 (N.J. 1954), A-51, Application of Tiene

Citation: 110 A.2d 93, 17 N.J. 170

Opinion Judge: VANDERBILT, C.J.

Party Name: Application of Julia TIENE and other freeholders of the City of Jersey City in the County of Hudson for a summary investigation into the municipal expenditures of that city. In the matter of the contempts of Joseph COMPARETTO, Bernard F. Kenny, Anthony J. Mascolo and George J. Masumiam, defendants-appellants.

Attorney: Maurice C. Brigadier, Jersey City, for appellants (John G. Flanigan, Jersey City, attorney; Seymour Margulies, Jersey City, on the brief). Joseph M. Nolan, Newark, for the State (Samuel A. Larner, Newark, on the brief).

Judge Panel: Heher and Wachenfeld, JJ., dissented. For affirmance: Chief Justice VANDERBILT and Justices OLIPHANT, BURLING, JACOBS and BRENNAN-5. For reversal: Justices HEHER and WACHENFELD-2.

Case Date: Monday December 20, 1954

Court: New Jersey Supreme Court