State v. Board of Public Works
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. This writ brings up an ordinance passed by the board of public works of the city of Camden, at a special meeting held on June 19th,. 1893, entitled “An ordinance confirming and granting consent and permission to the Camden Horse Railroad Company to lay and construct its railway tracks, and authorizing it to use electric motors to propel its cars, and erect poles and wires therefor in, upon and along the public streets and highways of the city of Camden,” and…
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On certiorari. This writ brings up an ordinance passed by the board of public works of the city of Camden, at a special meeting held on June 19th,. 1893, entitled “An ordinance confirming and granting consent and permission to the Camden Horse Railroad Company to lay and construct its railway tracks, and authorizing it to use electric motors to propel its cars, and erect poles and wires therefor in, upon and along the public streets and highways of the city of Camden,” and the ordinances, rules and notices under which said meeting was held, and the vote by which said ordinance was passed, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The questions involved in this case spring out of the efforts of each of two corporations to secure the right to lay street railway tracks in the same streets in the city of Camden.
*433The Camden Horse Car Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of 1868. Pamph. L., p. 640. The act gave the company power to construct a railway on certain named streets in the city of Camden. By a supplement to that act {Pamph. L. 1868, p. 638), the company was empowered to maintain a railroad on Delaware, Market and such other streets as might be necessary for…
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