Case Name: EMORY R. RUBY ET AL., RESPONDENTS, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS; JOHN T. KENNEDY, RESPONDENT, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1917-03-05
Citations: 90 N.J.L. 335
Docket Number: 
Parties: EMORY R. RUBY ET AL., RESPONDENTS, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS. JOHN T. KENNEDY, RESPONDENT, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 90
Pages: 335–335

Head Matter:
EMORY R. RUBY ET AL., RESPONDENTS, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS. JOHN T. KENNEDY, RESPONDENT, v. FREEHOLDERS OF HUDSON COUNTY ET AL., APPELLANTS.
Argued November 23, 1916
Decided March 5, 1917.
On appeal from the Supreme Court, whose opinion is reported in 88 N. J. L. 481.
For the appellants, William Baker, Tnc., Marshall Van-Winkle (Warren Dixon on the brief).
For the respondents, Gilbert Collins and Edward A. M arkley.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment of the Supreme Court should be affirmed, for tiie reasons given in the opinion of Mr. Justice Trenchard in the first of the above cases in that court.
Appellant Baker makes the additional point, not discussed by the Supreme Court, that the retention of his certified check deposited as a guarantee, when the cheeks of all other competing bidders were returned to them, amounted in law to an acceptance of the Baker bid and bound the county to proceed with the contract. We cannot take this view. The retention of Baker's check went with the resolution purporting, by a vote of six to three, to award him the contract, and certainly gave that attempt no additional efficacy. The fact that by consent of parties, or misapprehension of the correctness of the legal situation, the check remained with the freeholders, conferred no rights on the bidder except to have the check back.
For affirmance — Tits Chancellor, Chief Justice, Swayze, Parker, Bergen, Minturn, Kaitsch, White, Heppenhetmer, Williams, Gardner, JJ. 11.
For reversal—1STone.