Case Name: CITY OF CAMDEN, DEFENDANT IN ERROR, v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1913-03-03
Citations: 84 N.J.L. 309
Docket Number: 
Parties: CITY OF CAMDEN, DEFENDANT IN ERROR, v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 84
Pages: 309–310

Head Matter:
CITY OF CAMDEN, DEFENDANT IN ERROR, v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR.
Submitted December 9, 1912
Decided March 3, 1913.
Section 6 of the act relative to writs of mandamus (Comp. Stat., p. 3216), allowing the relator to prosecute a writ of error where the constitutionality of a statute is determined, applies only to cases where the writ is denied or the rule to show cause is discharged. Neptune Township v. Mannion, Collector, 44 Vroom 816; Morris & Cummings Co. v. Bayonne, 47 Id. 573, and Matlock v. Lloyd, distinguished.
Oil error to the Supreme Court, whose opinion is reported in 53 Vroom 246.
For the defendant in error, Edwin G. C. Bleakly.
For the plaintiff in error, Frank Bergen and Edward Ambler Armstrong.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The Supreme Court made absolute a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued. We have before us only the rule, the agreed facts and the order making the rule absolute. There is no judgment and not even a writ of mandamus. An attempt is made in the assignments of error to raise a constitutional question, but this is not argued. If it were, it could not be considered where there is no final judgment. The statute applies only to cases where the mandamus is denied or the rule discharged. Comp. Stat., p. 3216, § 6.
The more general language in the opinions in Neptune Township v. Mannion, Collector, 44 Vroom 816; Morris & Cummings Co. v. Bayonne, 47 Id. 573, and Matlock v. Lloyd, 53 Id. 739, is to be read in view of the situation presented in those cases, which did not call for the distinction between cases where the rule was discharged and where it was made absolute, since no constitutional question was raised. The writ of error must be dismissed, with, costs. Paterson v. Shields, 30 Vroom 426.