City Affairs Committee v. Board of Commissioners

(Dissenting.)' The resolution under review, adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Jersey City on October 3d, 1944, authorized the questioned advertisements and directed that the cost “be charged against Account No. 225, wherein appropriation has been made for railroad tax litigation.”

Two sets of full page newspaper advertisements were widely publicized- throughout the state, one in October, 1944, and the other in November, 1944, at a total expense of over $30,000. The October insertions were before the allowance of the writ; the November insertions and the payment of the entire cost,…