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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TRENTON AND MERCER COUNTY TRACTION CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ET AL., RESPONDENTS.
    Argued March 27, 1917
    Decided March 4, 1918.
    On appeal from the Supreme Court, whose opinion is reported in 90 N. J. L. 378.
    For the appellant, Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr.
    
    For the respondents, Charles F. Bird, George L. Record, Frank H. Sommer and L. Fdivard Herrmann.
    
   Pee Curiam.

The judgment under review herein should be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Swairze in the Supreme Court.

Garrison, J.

(dissenting). The Supreme Court based its judgment affirming the order made by the board of public utilities upon the single ground that an ordinance passed by the city of Trenton in 1909 constitutes a contract that bound not only the Trenton Street Railway Company, with which it was made, but also two corporations whose lines the Trenton Street Railway Company had leased, to wit, the Mercer County Traction Company and the Trenton, Hamilton and Ewing Traction Company.

Being unable to reach this latter conclusion, I think the judgment should be reversed so that this ease may be remanded to the Supreme Court to be dealt with upon its other features.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Trenchard, Parker, Bergen, Black, White, Heppenheimer, Williams, Taylor, Gardner, JJ. 10.

For reversal — Garrison, J. 1.