State v. Inhabitants of Trenton
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. This writ of certiorari brings into this court the following ordinance passed by the common council of the city of Trenton : “A supplement to an ordinance entitled ‘An ordinance to authorize the Trenton Horse Railroad Company to construct their road or track through the streets of the city of Trenton/ passed July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
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On certiorari. This writ of certiorari brings into this court the following ordinance passed by the common council of the city of Trenton : “A supplement to an ordinance entitled ‘An ordinance to authorize the Trenton Horse Railroad Company to construct their road or track through the streets of the city of Trenton/ passed July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. “Whereas, application has been made to the common council of the city of Trenton by the Trenton Horse Railroad Company for permission to use electric motors as the propelling power of. its cars through the streets of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The ordinance brought up by this writ is attacked upon the ground that the common council of t-he city of Trenton did not possess the power to enact it.
The defendants rest their claim that such power existed in the common council, upon. the terms of an act of the legislature passed in 1886. Rev. Sup., p. 369. The second section *96of that act is in the following words: That any street railroad company in this state may use electric or chemical motors or grip cables as the propelling power of its cars instead of horses; provided, it shall first…
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