State v. Mayor of Orange
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. This writ brings up an ordinance to open- a- street in the-city of Orange, together with all the proceedings touching the-same. Argued at June Term, 1891, before Justices Depue, Dixon and Reed.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The objection most strenuously pressed against-this ordinance is that its passage was not a- legitimate exercise-of the power to take land for public use.
It is first -insisted that the land of the prosecutor is not taken for the benefit of the public, but to subserve the interests of private individuals.
It is secondly insisted that the judgment of the body which was to decide upon the question whether the street should be-laid across the land of the prosecutor was improperly influenced by an offer of private persons to- pay a portion of…
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