State v. City Council

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scjudder, J.

The prosecutors, citizens of Atlantic City, acting for themselves and representing, by request, many citizens of that place, presented a remonstrance to the city council against the application for license to keep an inn and tavern made by the defendant Robert M. Iíunter, and othérs, whose names appear in the several writs that have been allowed, bringing up the same questions.

This city council have the exclusive right and power of licensing inns and taverns within said city in every particular, as is done by the Court of Common Pleas of…