Atlantic Coast Electric Railway Co. v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from the Supreme Court, whose opinion is reported in 89 N. J. L. 407.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The question is whether the ordinance of Bradley Beach and its acceptance by the street railway company made a contract which the State of New Jersey could not thereafter control, for unless the state was. deprived of its control by the act of the municipality, the board of public utility commissioners is free to act under authority of the act of 1911 by which it was created. The grant of power is strictly construed in favor of the state just as all grants of corporate power are strictly construed. Meday v. Rutherford, 65 N. J. L. 645. The…
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