Parnes v. Board of Excise Commissioners of Elizabeth

The opinion of the court-was delivered by

Parker, J.

This writ brings up for review the action of the board of excise commissioners of Elizabeth in granting a saloon license to William Roth and Joseph Deutsch. The grounds on which the license is challenged are two—that the premises are a new place and within two hundred feet of the curtilage of a church edifice, contrary to the provisions of section 11 of the act of 1889, as amended in Pamph. L. 1906, p. 199; Comp. Stat., p. 2908, pl. 84; and that the application was not signed by ten freeholders who had not signed another application. Comp.…