Altschul v. Mayor of Jersey City
Altschul v. Mayor of Jersey City
Opinion of the Court
We are unable to discern that the situation indicated by the depositions taken under this rule differs in any essential particular from that presented to and passed upon by Mr. Justice Swayze in 1915, in the unreported case of Kennedy v. Jersey City. The ordinance now attacked is a mere addendum to the ordinance of 1914, considered in that case, and was prompted by the fact that the corporation (or perhaps partnership) of Colgate & Company had become, evidently by merger with competitive interests, the corporation of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, and it was desired that the privilege enjoyed by Colgate & Company, under the ordinance of 1914, which was "to run for a term of twenty years, should be available to the new corporation for the remainder of the term, i. e.} until 1934.
The situation seems to indicate neither a railroad nor a street railway, but something differing from either. Hence such decisions as Seaman v. Perth Amboy, 98 N. J. L. 174, are of little help, except that in that case Mr. Justice Bergen held in this court as a question of fact that prosecutor had an interest to support the writ. 97 Id. 76, 78, 79. In the present case we see no such interest, in view of such cases as Montgomery v. Trenton, 36 Id. 79, 85, and Tallon v. Hoboken, 60 Id. 212, 218, in which latter case the relief was limited to the erection of a trolley pole on lands in the street of which the prosecutor owned the fee, and the stringing of wires on such pole, but denied as to the rails in the roadway.
We conclude that no satistaefory case has been made for the favorable exercise of our discretion by allowing a writ, and the rule to show cause is therefore discharged, with costs.
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