Keogh-Dwyer, In re

Decision Date14 October 1969
Docket NumberC,KEOGH-DWYE
PartiesPetition of Walter C.andidate for General Assembly of the Fifteenth District.
CourtNew Jersey Supreme Court

On appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court, Law Division, whose opinion is reported at 106 N.J.Super. 567, 256 A.2d 314.

Walter C. Keogh-Dwyer, in pro. per.

Wesley L. Lance, Clinton, for respondent Walter E. Foran.

Emanuel A. Honig, Franklin, for respondent Robert E. Littell.

PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed substantially for the reasons given by the trial court. No costs in any Court.

For affirmance: Chief Justice WEINTRAUB and Justices JACOBS, FRANCIS, PROCTOR, HALL, SCHETTINO and HANEMAN--7.

For reversal: None.

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