Legal Opinion · Dissent
Piscataway Twp. v. First Nat. Bank of Dunellen
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided May 15, 1933Published
1DissentHeiibk, J.
(Dissenting.) I am unable to concur in the view expressed by my brethren of the majority.
In the case of Lyon v. City of Elizabeth, 43 N. J. L. 158, cited in the majority opinion, the sheriff levied upon several lots of land owned by the city, by virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued upon a judgment recovered against the city. Mr. Justice Yan Syckel pointed out that a writ of fieri facias against the public property of a municipal corporation is unknown to the common law; that municipal corporations axe mere instrumentalities through which the legislature administers the civil policy of the…
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