Case ID: njl_58/html/0554-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Garrison, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE TREASURER OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH v. JAMES DUNNING.
    “An act providing for the licensing of dogs” {Gen. Stat., p. 2237, § 533) supersedes any power of exacting license fees for dogs that the city of Elizabeth possessed under its charter.
    On certiorari.
    
    Argued at November Term, 1895, before Justices Garrison and Lippincott.
    For the prosecutor, James C. Connolly.
    
    For the defendant, Patrick H. Gilhooly.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This certiorari brings up the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Union county reversing that of the police justice and dismissing the complaint of the prosecutor.. The complaint was for failure to comply with an ordinance of the city of Elizabeth with respect to the registration of dogs, passed May 2d, 1892.

“An act providing for the licensing of dogs ” (Pamph. L. 1893, p. 328; Gen. Stat., p. 2237) supersedes any power of exacting license fees for dogs that the city of Elizabeth possesses under its charter. Such was the decision of this court in the case of Mulcahy v. Newark, 28 Vroom 513. The ordinance under which conviction was had in the present case was in its essential features repugnant to the repealing statute.

The judgment of the Pleas is affirmed, with costs.