Supreme Court of New Jersey June 15, 1893 (State v. Mayor of Jersey City)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

Section 58 of the charter of Jersey City (Pamph. L. 1871, p. 1122), which authorizes a change of grade of a street, provides for the payment of damages to landowners thereby injured, and enacts that the proceedings for such change shall correspond as nearly as may be to the proceedings for opening a street.