Sente v. Mayor and Mun. Coun. Clifton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Hall, J.

This case is long since moot. While we may determine a moot appeal when the public interest in the issue presented is so great as to make a resolution of it desirable, Busik v. Levine, 63 N. J. 351, 364 (1973), appeal dismissed 414 U. S. 1106, 94 S. Ct. 831, 38 L.Ed. 2d 733 (1973), we should not do so when, as here, the record and contentions on a novel and very far-reaching question are so unsatisfactory that we cannot be confident of reaching the correct result.

The action, in lieu of prerogative writ, commenced in the Law Division in 1970,…