State v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

This writ brings up a resolution of the board of chosen freeholders of Cumberland county, passed December 14th, 1892, giving permission to the Bridgeton Rapid Transit Company, its successors and assigns, to lay double tracks across a county bridge, over a navigable stream, in Bridgeton, and the. right to operate a street railway thereon by any mechanical power except steam.

The Bridgeton Rapid Transit Company was incorporated November 23d, 1892, under the act of April 6th, 1886, and the supplements thereto. Pamph. L., p. 185.

Under this…