State v. Trenton Passenger Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This writ brings up a Judgment of the Supreme Court sustaining an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to authorize the Trenton Passenger Railway. Company (Consolidated) to use electric motors as the propelling power of its cars through certain streets and avenues in the city of Trenton, and to provide for the erection of poles and the stringing of wires thereon to supply electricity to the motors,” passed by the board of public works of the city-of Trenton, February 8th, 1894, and approved by the mayor, February 12th, 1894.

The ordinance was…