Morris & Cummings Dredging Co. v. Mayor of Bayonne

The record returned with the writ of error in this case shows that the proceedings below consisted of a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should- not issue requiring the city of Bayonne and the members of its common council, plaintiffs in error, to apportion certain arrears of taxes on lands of the prosecutors; a stipulation of facts in lieu of depositions pursuant to such rule; a further rule of the Supreme Court making the rule to show cause absolute and directing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue; and the writ itself.

*574It was decided by this court as long ago as I860 that…