Case Name: THE STATE, ANNA B. CONKLIN, EXECUTRIX, ISABELLA BOGERT AND CHRISTIANA ZABRISKIE, PROSECUTORS, v. BERGEN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT ET AL.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1900-03-20
Citations: 64 N.J.L. 536
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE, ANNA B. CONKLIN, EXECUTRIX, ISABELLA BOGERT AND CHRISTIANA ZABRISKIE, PROSECUTORS, v. BERGEN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
THE STATE, ANNA B. CONKLIN, EXECUTRIX, ISABELLA BOGERT AND CHRISTIANA ZABRISKIE, PROSECUTORS, v. BERGEN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT ET AL.
Argued November Term, 1899
Decided March 20, 1900.
An assessment for opening a street will be set aside if one of the commissioners is a property-owner and taxpayer within the limits of the village over which the board of commissioners had authority, he being disqualified by the act of March 12th, ,1878. Pamph. L., p. 70, \ 2.
On certiorari, &c., for opening of Camden street.
Before Justices Depue, Van Syckel and Lippincott.
For the prosecutors, Addison Ely.
For the defendants, Luther A. Campbell and Warren Dixon.

Opinion:
Lippincott, J.
(memorandum). -The announcement .was made at the February Term, 1899, that the assessments brought into this court by these 'writs.'were set aside, with costs.
The ground for the setting aside these assessments was that the statute of .1878, which authorizes the imposition'of these assessments, requires that they shall be made by three discreet, competent freeholders, not property-owners,- tax payers nor residents within the limits of the authority of .such board of commissioners. Pamph L., p. 70, § 2.
The evidence shows that one, at least, of the commissioners was disqualified under this act. He was a property-owner .and taxpayer within the village of Hackensack, over which the board of commissioners had authority, and thus disqualified to make the assessment, and therefore the assessments .are void.
The other reasons urged have not been considered.