Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Board of Public Utilities Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This writ of certiorari brings up an order made on February 25th, 1913, by the Board of Public Utilities Commissioners in a matter entitled “In the matter of the complaint of Mahlon L. Hoagland v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co., refusal to allow free transportation.”

Mahlon L. Hoagland is a member of the Yew Jersey State Water Supply Commission who, on the 21st day of January, 1913, while riding as a passenger on the (rain of the prosecutor tendered, in lieu of a fare, a certificate in card form that had been issued to him by…