State v. Long Branch Commissioners
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari,'-removing a judgment of the Police Court of ¡Long Branch, convicting the-prosecutor of the violation-of • uu ordinance, which forbade the erection of wooden buildings upon Broadway between Eockwell avenue and the sea.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
The only question raised by the reasons for 'reversal filed in this ease is, whether the evidence before the police justice warranted his conclusion that what had been •done by the plaintiff in certiorari amounted to “ the erection •of a building.”
He owned a frame building, one story and an attic in height, (fourteen feet front on Broadway and twenty-four feet deep, *109standing on wooden piers. This he changed, by moving ít> back a little, by taking out the front and putting in a new-one, by extending the lower story about seven feet laterally…
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