Barnes v. Essex County Park Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

On January 7th, 1913, the Essex County Park Commission passed an ordinance, entitled “An ordinance for the regulation and control of the vehicular traffic on the parkway known as Park avenue, within the limits of the county of Essex, and under the jurisdiction of the Essex County Park Commission.”

The ordinance provides as follows:

“Section 1. That public omnibuses, express wagons, carts or other vehicles, carrying or ordinarily used to carry merchandise, goods, tools or rubbish, however propelled, shall be excluded from said avenue from…