Mayor of Morristown v. Murphy

• The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The prosecutors of this writ were arrested upon a warrant issued by a police justice upon a complaint that they “did stand with their hacks at the railroad station on Morris street, in Morristown, New Jersey, at a place which had not been designated as a public stand for hacks,” &c., contrary to the provisions of “An ordinance concerning licenses to hackmen and others,” &c.

The record of conviction states that upon the hearing the police justice “adjudged them guilty of the violation of section 14 of ‘An ordinance concerning licenses to…