Legal Opinion
Oliver v. Mayor of Jersey City
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 27, 1899PublishedCited by 18 opinions
On certiorari.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
The subject of review in this case is an ordinance passed by the board of street and water commissioners of Jersey City, granting to the Greenville and Hudson *98Railway Company the right to cross Communipaw avenue at grade with four tracks.
The prosecutor is a resident and a taxpayer of Jersey City; his land is situated east of the National Docks road on Communipaw avenue, through which avenue he has been accustomed to travel in going to and from his premises.
The railroad tracks are not to be laid in the street in front of his abutting lands…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- United States v. HartwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
- State ex rel. Walker v. BusSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- C. C. Clark and Others v. . E. R. Stanley and OthersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1872
- The People Ex Rel. Kelly v. . Common CouncilNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- The People Ex Rel. v. . NostrandNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Wimberly v. DeaconSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1943
- Haines v. Burlington County Bridge CommissionNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1949
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Crow v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- Frazier v. ElmoreTennessee Supreme Court · 1943
- People ex rel. Ward v. DrakeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
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