State v. Board of Township Committee

The. opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The controlling question in this case is, ■whether a municipality, under its power to condemn lands to open streets, may take lands for other purposes. The facts upon which this question has arisen are these: An act of the legislature, passed March 8th, 1888, authorized the construction of bridges, and the approaches thereto, over navigable streams which divide counties. Pamph. L. 1888, p. 158. Under the authority thus conferred, the chosen freeholders of Essex and Hudson counties began the construction of a bridge ■over the Passaic river,…