Home Telephone Co. v. Common Council

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The Home Telephone Company of New Brunswick asks for a mandamus commanding the common council of the city of New Brunswick to grant an application presented to it in the following form :

“To the Honorable the Common Couneil of the City of New Brunswick, N. J.:

“Gentlemen — The undersigned, the Home Telephone Company of New Brunswick, a body corporate under an act of the legislature of the state, entitled ‘An act to incorporate *173and regulate telephone companies’ (Revision), approved April 9th, 1875, and the several supplements thereto, hereby…