Ford Motor Co. v. Mayor of Kearny

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court overruling a demurrer to an alternative writ of mandamus and awarding a peremptory writ commanding the town of Kearny to cancel of record certain liens, entered under section 9 of the act of 1884, against the landlord’s land for unpaid bills for water'introduced and supplied to it (without his knowledge or consent) by measure under contract with his tenant, for a garbage disposal plant which the tenant established on the land. The liens cover unpaid bills during a period of nearly three…