State v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, J.

The controversy in this case is over a resolution of the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Gumberland adopted at a meeting on March 21st, 1894, whereby, among other things, permission was given to the West Side Railway Company to locate and construct a street ■railway over the Commerce street bridge, in the city of Bridgeton, in said county, and to operate cars over said •bridge by any mechanical power except steam ; the tracks of 'the railway to be laid in the centre of the bridge.

This court has recently considered a similar…