Mayor of Newark v. Stockton
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the Chancellor, whose opinion is reported in Stockton v. Newark, 15 Stew. Eq. 531. The facts of this case will be found fully stated in the opinion of the Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, C. J.
For the purpose of perspicuity it is necessary to define tha¡ status of those who appear upon the record as the promoters of this proceeding.
The bill purports to be exhibited as an information by the attorney-general, at the instance of sundry private prosecutors; and yet, although wearing that plainly public aspect, it was sought to sustain the suit, in part, on the basis of the existence of purely private rights of property. The prosecutors, both in the bill and in the arguments of their counsel, were presented to the court as the…
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