Case ID: njl_119/html/0413-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bodine, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BOROUGH OF SEASIDE HEIGHTS, PROSECUTOR, v. ISAIAH A. SHEPHERD AND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANTS.
    Submitted October 29, 1937
    Decided January 26, 1938.
    Ror the prosecutor, Francis Tanner.
    
    Ror the defendants, Ira F. Smith.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

The appeal is from a judgment in the Supreme Court affirming the findings by the state board of education that Isaiah A. Shepherd held the position of school janitor in the borough of Seaside Heights for an indefinite term and was protected by the Janitors’ Tenure act (Pamph. L. 1911, ch. 44, p. 67); and further that his dismissal was without cause, in that he was charged with a violation of rules of the board of education so recently adopted that he had not been apprised thereof. The issues being purely factual cannot be disturbed in this court, since there was evidence before the Supreme Court to support them. “The attack is on findings of fact, * * * by the Supreme Court, it is, on well settled principles not cognizable here if there was any evidence to support those findings. Moran v. Jersey City, 58 N. J. L. 653; Suburban Land Co. v. Vailsburgh, 68 Id. 311; Kohn v. Tilt, 103 Id. 110.” Ford Moror Co. v. Fernandez, 114 N. J. L. 202, 204.

The judgment under review will be affirmed, with costs.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Case, Bodine, Heher, Perskie, Hetfielb, Dear, Wells, WolfsKeil, Rafferty, Walker, JJ. 12.

For reversal — Rone.