Buck v. Douglass

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

This is a rule to show cause why a writ of certiorari should not issue.

The prosecutor is a truck farmer in the township of Bernards.

That township, by its township committee, passed an ordinance, approved March 1st, 1906, requiring peddlers’ licenses to be falten out for certain kinds of peddlers in that township.

The prosecutor contends that he has been compelled to take out a license under this ordinance, and he challenges the right of the township committee to pass the ordinance upon several grounds, the first of which is that the township…