State v. Mayor of Newark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This certiorari brings up for review an ordinance of the board of street and water commissioners of the-city of Newark, passed July 13th, 1893, for the purpose of authorizing the Consolidated Traction Company to locate, construct and operate railways in certain streets of the city. The-ordinance appears to have been adopted under the seventh section of an act approved March 14th, 1893 (Pamph. L., p. 302), and it is admitted that its validity depends upon conformity with that enactment.

The prosecutor bases some objections to the ordinance…