Court Opinion

ID: 3565500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:15:21.977305+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:56:31.591435
License: Public Domain

The judgment under review herein should be affirmed.
In thus deciding, however, we hold that the observation in the opinion of the Supreme Court that an appeal to the zoning board of adjustment is a necessary preliminary to recourse to the courts, when legal or constitutional questions are involved, is erroneous and must be overruled upon the authority of the cases in this court of H. Krumgold  Sons v. Jersey City, ante, p.
170, and Losick v. Binda, ante, p. 157. *Page 434 
In the Losick case we held that zoning boards of adjustment were not created as appellate bodies and that legal or constitutional questions involved in zoning requirements were not a subject-matter for the determination of such boards, but must be presented for consideration to the proper legal forum; and in the Krumgold case, that an appeal to a zoning board of adjustment is not a prerequisite to an application for a writ of mandamus.
In all other respects we are satisfied with the per curiam of the Supreme Court, and affirm, for the reasons expressed in that deliverance.
For affirmance — THE CHANCELLOR, CHIEF JUSTICE, TRENCHARD, KALISCH, KATZENBACH, CAMPBELL, LLOYD, WHITE, GARDNER, VAN BUSKIRK, McGLENNON, KAYS, HETFIELD, JJ. 13.
For reversal — None.