Morristown-Madison Auto Bus Co. v. Borough of Madison
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. Certiorari to review an ordinance for the licensing of hack-men and others and a conviction thereunder. The original ordinance required a license from any person who kept or used for hire any vehicle for transportation of passengers from any point within the borough of Madison.
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On certiorari. Certiorari to review an ordinance for the licensing of hack-men and others and a conviction thereunder. The original ordinance required a license from any person who kept or used for hire any vehicle for transportation of passengers from any point within the borough of Madison. The license required was provided for in section 5, which authorized the borough council to grant licenses under the borough seal to persons keeping and using for hire vehicles for the transportation of passengers within the borough of Madison. Of this ordinance the prosecutor did not complain. In 1912,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The Motor Vehicle act (Comp. Stat.; p. 3435, § 22) enacts that no owner, purchaser or driver of a motor vehicle who shall have complied with the requirements of the act, shall be required to obtain any other license, or permit, to use or operate the same, or be limited in the free use thereof, or limited as to speed upon anj’ public street or other public place when the same is open to the use of persons having carriages, or be required to comply with other provisions or conditions as to the use of the motor vehicle except as provided in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Township of Lakewood v. HavensSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1908
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