Court Opinion

ID: 8060492
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:37:47.40285+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:02.421204
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The main question discussed in this case is whether the common council of the city of Newark possessed the power to pass the resolution, the substance of which has been set out. The power to pass this resolution was claimed to exist in the terms of the act of 1886 (Rev. Sup., p. 369) already set forth in the opinion in the preceding case of Green v. Trenton.
The ordinance in that case conferred privileges similar to the ordinance in this.
All that was said in the previous case relative to the scope of the act of 1886 is applicable in this case.
The result is that the resolution must be regarded as a nullity.
*104But if it should be conceded that there was power in the common council to deal with the subject-matter of the resolution, I think such power should have been exerted by ordinance.
The grants, restrictions and limitations contained in the resolutions were regulative of the use of the streets.
That the regulation of streets shall be by ordinance or by-law, and not by resolution, seems to be the necessary conclusion from the language of section 30, paragraph 7, and séction 96, paragraph 3, of the charter of Newark. Pamph. L. 1857, pp. 132, 162; State v. Hoboken, 6 Vroom 205, 335; Hunt v. Lambertville, 16 Id. 279; People’s Gas Light Co. v. Jersey City, 17 Id. 297.
1 In regard to the right of the prosecutor to sue out this writ, it appears that the poles in front of his property were to be placed in the middle of the street. He owns to the middle of the street.
In Springfield avenue the poles were placed, or some of the' poles were placed, entirely upon his land. If placed in accordance with the directions of the resolution, each pole would be partly upon his land and the arms upon the post would sweep over it.
This gives the prosecutor a footing in court to try the legality of the resolution.
The resolution is set aside.