State v. Mayor of Newark
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. Argued at November Term, 1891, before Justices Dixon, Reed and Garrison.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
This certiorari brings, under review proceedings taken by the mayor and common council of the city of Newark, in pursuance of the act of March 17th, 1891 (Pamph. L., p. 172), to condemn lands of the prosecutor “for the purpose of laying down and constructing and maintaining a pipe line or lines” to be used in supplying said city with water for public use.
The first objection which the prosecutor urges against these proceedings is, that the act does not purport to confer any power of condemnation, but merely prescribes how existing powers shall…
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