State ex rel. Warner v. Hoagland
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On application for a mandamus. On rule to show cause. By an act entitled “An act concerning the construction, care and improvement of the public ways, parks and sewers in certain of the cities of this state, and assessments for the same,” passed February 14th, 1888 (JPamph.
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On application for a mandamus. On rule to show cause. By an act entitled “An act concerning the construction, care and improvement of the public ways, parks and sewers in certain of the cities of this state, and assessments for the same,” passed February 14th, 1888 (JPamph. L., p. 88), it was enacted that in each of the cities of this state, excepting cities of the first class, the opening, construction, care,'cleaning, repairing, alteration and improvement of the roads, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys and parks, and of the public sewers and drains within the corporate limits thereof, should…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The act of 1888, on which the relator founds his right to the possession of these records, abolished the office of the respondents and transferred its duties to the relator. *66The respondents resist the application, and contend that the act of 1888 is unconstitutional and void.
The act thus drawn in question excepts from its operation “ cities of the first class.” It is insisted that for this reason it is a special and local law regulating the internal affairs of cities. The classification of cities was made by the act of March 4th, 1882. Rev.…
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- State v. Judge of the Circuit CourtSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1888
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