Case Name: DAVID A. BROWN v. "STREET LIGHTING DISTRICT NUMBER ONE," OF WOODBRIDGE AND CARTERET ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1904-06-13
Citations: 71 N.J.L. 79
Docket Number: 
Parties: DAVID A. BROWN v. “STREET LIGHTING DISTRICT NUMBER ONE,” OF WOODBRIDGE AND CARTERET ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 79–80

Head Matter:
DAVID A. BROWN v. “STREET LIGHTING DISTRICT NUMBER ONE,” OF WOODBRIDGE AND CARTERET ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY.
Argued February 16, 1904
Decided June 13, 1904.
A contract awarded to a private corporation by commissioners acting for a municipal corporation, one of whom is a stockholder in the private corporation, will be set aside on application of a taxpayer of the municipality.
On certiorari.
Before Justices Van Sycicel and Fokt.
For the prosecutor, Neilson Abaci.
For the defendants, Malcolm MacLear and Frederick IV eigel.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tan Syckel, J.
The prosecutor sued out the writ in this case to set aside a contract awarded to the Carteret Electric 'Light and Power Company for lighting Woodbridge.
The prosecutor is a taxpayer and is a resident in said lighting district.
Ephraim Cutter, one of the commissioners who awarded the contract to the Carteret company, is a stockholder in said company, and therefore the contract is without validity and should be set aside. Winans v. Crane, 7 Vroom 394; Traction Company v. Board of Works, 27 Id. 431; Foster v. Cape May, 31 Id. 78.