Elizabeth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Howell

The opinion was delivered

Pee Cueiam.

This matter first came before us in Elizabeth Federal S. & L. Ass’n v. Howell, 24 N. J. 488 (1957). We there held that although the appellants were not parties ■to the application to establish a branch office under N. J. S. A. 17:124-21, subd. B, yet they had sufficient status to attack the commissioner’s grant of approval on the ground that it “exceeded his power or constituted an arbitrary exercise of it” (24 N. J., at 'page 505). Appellants having misconceived their status and the nature of their burden) we concluded they should be permitted to make a…