Drew v. Township of West Orange

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The object of this certiorari is to test the legality of the proceedings taken by the township committee of West Orange for the purchase of land and the erection thereon.of a town hall, under “An act authorizing the inhabitants of townships to purchase or erect a building for township purposes,” approved March 1st, 1886. Gen. Stat., p. 3646.

The first objection made against the proceedings is that the act is special, because limited to townships. This is disposed of by the recent decision of the Court of Errors in Hermann v. Town of Guttenberg,…