Currie v. Atlantic City

The opinion of the court was delivered hy

Garrison, J.

The prosecutor, who is the owner of property fronting upon South Carolina and Arctic avenues, in Atlantic City, has removed into this court an ordinance of that city that authorizes the location of tracks and the construction, maintenance and operation of a street railway over the two avenues above mentioned and over Rhode Island avenue. This ordinance is attacked by the prosecutor upon the ground that the city council had not jurisdiction to pass it, for the reason that there was not on file in the office of the city clerk the consents, in…