Cook v. Borough of Manasquan
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. This writ was allowed to remove an ordinance of the borough of Manasquan introduced and passed to its first and second readings at a meeting of the council of that borough held June 32d, 1909, and passed on final reading July 13th, 1909, and on the same day approved by the mayor.
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On certiorari. This writ was allowed to remove an ordinance of the borough of Manasquan introduced and passed to its first and second readings at a meeting of the council of that borough held June 32d, 1909, and passed on final reading July 13th, 1909, and on the same day approved by the mayor. The ordinance recites that an application in writing was received by the council signed by at least ten resident freeholders oí the borough, for the widening of a certain portion of Main street, “so that said section be so widened that the roadbed of said section shall be thirty-six feet, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Voorhees, J.
This case was heard by a single justice by consent under the statute.
The first objection made to the proceedings is that the petition presented to the council for the improvement, pursuant to the fifty-third section of the Borough act (Pamph. L. 1899, p. 171), prescribes that “every ordinance passed pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-three (33) shall be preceded by an application in writing for such improvement, describing the nature, kind and extent of the work or improvement desired, signed by at least ten (10) freeholders of…
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- Morrison v. City of LawrenceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Andrews v. Inhabitants of BoylstonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- State ex rel. Hawkins v. CookSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1898
- The People v. . ZeystNew York Court of Appeals · 1861
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