State v. Board of Excise Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The relators in this case seek to set aside a license granted by the board of excise commissioners of Trenton to Thomas H. Cox to sell intoxicating liquors at No. 6 Pennington avenue in said city.

We think the license must be set aside for the following reasons:

First. The application was for a license to be granted for a new place, which is within two hundred feet of the Warren Street Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Section '9 of the ordinances of the excise board forbids the granting of a license in such case.

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