New York & New Jersey Telephone Co. v. Mayor of Bound Brook

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garretson, J.

This is an application for a mandamus upon the mayor and council of Bound Brook to desígnate a route for a telephone line through the borough.

In the case of Home Telephone Co. v. New Brunswick, 33 Vroom 172, where an application was made for a route through various streets of the city, the court says: “If we could regard the petition as requesting merely the designation of a continuous route for a line through the city, we would have no doubt of the duty of council to grant it.

“The basis on which such a duty is claimed to rest is found in…