Case ID: nj-misc_17/html/0035-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BoniNE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MICHAEL WILLIAM BENESH, PROSECUTOR, v. WALTER A. WOLF, RECORDER OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LODI, AND TOWNSHIP OF LODI, RESPONDENTS.
    Decided June 26, 1934.
    
      (Released for publication January 27, 1939.)
    
    For the prosecutor, Wolber, Gilhoo'ly <& Yauch.
    
    For the respondents, Ghandless, Weller <& Selser.
    
   BoniNE, J.

The conviction will be set aside for the reasons stated by Mr. Justice Heher in Lynch v. Long Branch, 111 N. J. L. 148.

The argument was made that the ordinance under which the conviction was had was not for revenue purposes. If not, then the ordinance was clearly beyond the legislative grant for the reasons stated by Mr. Justice Dixon in Cary v. North Plainfield, 49 N. J. L. 110, and continuously followed in this state. Modern business cannot be transacted by procuring licenses in every municipality where a delivery wagon may call. Until the legislature clearly expresses a purpose to authorize such municipal action, it does not exist.