Builders' Realty Corp. v. Bigelow

Supreme Court of New Jersey
Builders' Realty Corp. v. Bigelow, 131 A. 888 (N.J. 1926)
102 N.J.L. 433; 1926 N.J. LEXIS 185
PER CURIAM.

Builders' Realty Corp. v. Bigelow

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

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.

*434 In the Losick ease 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.

Reference

Full Case Name
Builders’ Realty Corporation, Respondent, v. Frederick Bigelow, Building Superintendent of the City of Newark, the City of Newark and the Board of Adjustment of the City of Newark, Appellants
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Status
Published