Case ID: njl_49/html/0228-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Beasley, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF HUDSON v. WILLIAM BUCK AND MARTIN STELJES.
    The statute entitled “An act to make certain roads, constructed by commissioners under the authority of the legislature, county roads, and to provide for the payment of the expenses of constructing by the county, and for the mode of maintaining and repairing the same” {Pamph. L. 1883, p. 225) — Held to be unconstitutional, as applying to only one county.
    On error to the Supreme Court.
    For the plaintiff, J. JET. Idppincott.
    
    For the defendant, Allan L. McDermott.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The statute entitled “An act to make certain roads, constructed by commissioners under the authority of the legislature, county roads, and to provide for the payment of the expenses of constructing by the county, and for the mode of maintaining and repairing the same” (Pamph. L. 1883, p. 225), is the foundation of the suit, and as we think that this act is applicable to the county of Hudson alone, and can never be applied in any other locality, and is therefore plainly unconstitutional, the judgment in this case must be reversed.

For affirmance — None.

For reversal — The Chief Justice, Depue, Dixon, Magie, Parker, Reed, Scudder, Van Syckel, Brown, Clement, Cole, Whitaker. 12.