Opinion

Durgin v. Brown

  • 37 N.J. 189
  • 180 A.2d 136
  • 1962 N.J. LEXIS 216
Court
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Filed
Apr 2, 1962
Status
Published
Author
Habeman
On the bench
Weintkaub, Habeman
Cited by
39 cases

a municipal body may not expend public funds for the purpose of supporting factional controversies; said activities must comport with general notions of the public interest

How later courts described this case

  • a municipal body may not expend public funds for the purpose of supporting factional controversies; said activities must comport with general notions of the public interest

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Habeman, J.

(concurring in result). I join with Justice Erancis in his concurring opinion, except so much thereof as would permit the Board to retain counsel by a majority vote rather than by a unanimous vote.

Jacobs, Erabcis and Habemab, JJ., concurring in result.

For affirmance-—Chief Justice Wbibtraub, and Justices Jacobs, Erabois, Proctor, Hall, Schettibo and Habemab—7.

For reversal—Hone.

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