Conover v. Gregson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

The writ in this case brings up the proceedings of the city council of Atlantic City in granting a license to the defendant Gregson to keep an inn and tavern in that city.

I am satisfied that the applicant was not recommended by twelve freeholders, as required by the act concerning inns and taverns, and if the prosecutor were in a position to raise this objection, it would be fatal; but he did not present this objection to the city council; it is too late to present it now. This very question was decided in this court in Smith v. Elizabeth, 17…