Case ID: njl_120/html/0534-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES VANDER KLOK, COMPLAINANT, v. BOROUGH OF HAWTHORNE, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT.
    Submitted May 3, 1938 —
    Decided August 17, 1938.
    Before Justices Trenchard, Parker and Perskie.
    For the complainant, Max P. Arlt (William V. Rosenkrans, of counsel).
    For the respondent, Francis Caminetti.
    
   Per Curiam.

This is complainant’s rule to show cause why an alternative writ of mandamus should not issue, directing respondent to apply for commissioners to fix compensation and damages for land taken for the widening of Rock road between Goffle road and Lincoln avenue, in the borough of Hawthorne, in accordance with the provisions of an ordinance of the borough.

The depositions laid before us show that the facts are in substantial dispute and that the legal right to a mandamus is not clear. In such ease an alternative writ only will be awarded, and accordingly the rule to show cause in this ease will be made absolute. Hugg v. Camden, 39 N. J. L. 620; Schnitzler v. New York Transportation Co., 76 Id. 171.