Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street Railway Co. v. Borough of Garfield

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This certiorari brings up an ordinance of the borough of Garfield, approved September 21st, 1901. The object of this ordinance is to annul a franchise to lay the appurtenances necessary for operating an electric railway granted to the prosecutor by an ordinance of the township committee of the township of Saddle River, passed March 2d, 1898. After the acceptance of the earlier ordinance by the prosecutor, the borough of Garfield was formed out of a part of the territory of the township of Saddle River. This circumstance, together with the…