Clark Thread Co. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On demurrer to narr. ' Argued at November Term, 1891, before Beasley, Chief • •Justice, and Justices Depue and Van Sycicel.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
This is a suit under the act concerning riots (Rev., p. 978), to recover damages from the county of Hudson for injury which the plaintiff company alleges was. done to its buildings by a mob in February, 1891.
Sections 5, 6 and 7 of said act, which give the right of' action and direct how it shall be prosecuted, are substantially like the acts which have been enacted in New York and! Pennsylvania.
The first ground of demurrer is, that the fifth section of the act which authorizes-suit against the county is not within, the title of the act.
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