State v. Board of Public Works

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This is a controversy between two street railway companies, touching their respective claims to lay a track for their cars in one of the streets of the city of .Camden. By a certain ordinance passed by the board of works of that municipality, permission was given to the Camden Horse Railroad Company to construct its road in the street in question. This ordinance was brought before the Supreme Court by a certiorari, the prosecutor of which was the West Jersey Traction Company, the plaintiff in error, being a corporation organized…