The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-30
WANSER SCOTCHBD.
The Brown Place Matter
Stayed by the Court
Pending Legal
Enquiry.

supreme Court Justice Werts, on appli-
cation yesterday of Collins & Corbett, at
torneys for the Lehigh Valley Terminal
Railway Company and the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, as lessees of the Nor
ris Canal and Banking Company, ana of
Dickinson, Thompson & McMaster. as
attorneys for the National Dock Railway
Company, granted orders to show cause
why writ of csrtiorari should not be
allowed to review the recent proceedings
Dy which Brown Place was de-
clared public street. The order
Is returnable tomorrow, and acts as a
stay against all proceedings ordered by
the Street and Water Boards resolution
until the matter is disposed of. Copies of
the order have been served upon the
members Of the Street and Water Board,
the Mayor and City Clerk Scott, as Clerk
of the Board of Aldermen.
Ihe order granted the attorneys of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company is
given below. The others are precisely
the same, with the exception of the titles
1t is rumored also that the New Jersey
Central Railroad Company will also take
hand.
Here is the text of the order:-
New JERSEY SUPREME COURT
THE STATE. '- '
The Morris Canal and Banking Company, The
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, lessees,
Pros, VS.. The Mayor and Aldermen of Jer-
sey City and the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of Jersey City, defendants
OF the Morris Canal and Banking Com
pany by the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company. lessess for writ Of certiorari to
Of Street and Water Commissioners ON the
twenty-eighth day of September, A. D., 1892
relative to strip of land owned by the city of
Jersey City, upon which is constructed the
main sewer called the Brown Place Sewer de-
further directing the Chief Engineer to
and areeDp map that for the the eh6 6
Valley Terminal Railway Company and the Ma
tional Docks Railway Company be notified
forthwith to remove all abutments and obstruc-
tons placed by them within the lines of said
street, and that the Superintendent of Streets
be charged with the duty of enforcing this
order, and directing that the law officers of the
city be directed to take measures to secure
Brown place as an unincumbered street from
the line of Avenue to the New York Bay, and
counsel having been heard thereon:
1t is on this twenty ninth day of September in
the year eighteen hundred aud ninety two
ordered that the Mayor and Aldermen Of Jersey
City and the Board of Street and Water Com
day of October next at eleven o'clock
in the forenoon of that day to show
cause why a writ of certiorari should
not be allowed to review said resolutions and
it is further ordered that in the meantime
all action and proceedings of every nature di-
rected by said resolutions he stayed, and that
true but uncertfed copy of this rule and re-
straing order be served upon the Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City by leaving thesame
at the office of the Mayor IN the City Hall, and
upon the Street and Water Commis sioners by
leaving the same with the Clerk of said Board,
or with any Of the Commissioners.
GEORGE T. WERTs
Justice Supreme Court.
REAL MAD.
There is no room in Mayor Wanser's
Office for JERSEY CITY News reporter.
His Honor is s'real angry" Other CLERK
Nevin is also painfully polite.
His Honor dislikes to discuss the in
vestigation he has ordered. He is en-
deavoring to squirm out of it.
He is also puzzled to know how THE
JERSEY CITY News got all the inside
n q tvs of his little hnlldnzino schema