St. Paul's Catholic Church v. Mayor of Jersey City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The question for determination in this case is the legality of an ordinance passed by the hoard of street and water commissioners of Jersey City on August 29th, 1910, approved September 7th, 1910, purporting to amend a prior ordinance of 1893, passed in intended conformity to the Street Railway act of that year (Gen. Stat., p. 3235), “to authorize the Consolidated Traction Company to locate, construct, operate and maintain certain street railways over and through certain streets in Jersey City.”

The original ordinance was defective in that,…