Daniel B. Frazier Company v. Township of Long Beach In Ocean County

• Decision Date: 31 January 1933
• Docket Number: Nos. 41-45.,s. 41-45.
• Citation: Daniel B. Frazier Co. v. Long Beach Tp., Ocean County, 110 N.J.L. 221, 164 A. 278 (N.J. 1933)
• Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
• Parties: DANIEL B. FRAZIER COMPANY, APPELLANT, v. TOWNSHIP OF LONG BEACH IN OCEAN COUNTY, H. EARLE McCONNELL, COLLECTOR OF TAXES, AND AUGUSTUS L. KIEL, TOWNSHIP CLERK, RESPONDENTS

164 A. 278

DANIEL B. FRAZIER CO.

v. LONG BEACH TP., OCEAN COUNTY, et al.

Nos. 41-45.

Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey.

Jan. 31, 1933.

Appeal from Supreme Court.

Certiorari proceedings by the Daniel B. Frazier Company against the Township of Long Beach in Ocean County and others. From order vacating allocatur given by justice of Supreme Court (161 A. 51, 10 N. J. Misc. 747), prosecutor appeals.

Appeals dismissed.

See, also, 161 A. 53, 677, 10 N. J. Misc. 719, 918.

Joseph H. Carr, of Camden, for appellant.

Howard Ewart, of Toms River, for respondents.

LLOYD, J.

At the threshold of these cases, we are confronted with the right of appellant to have them reviewed in this court. Its lands had been sold for taxes, purchased by the township, and bills had been filed in the Court of Chancery by the township to foreclose the equity of redemption of the owner (see 112 N. J. Eq. 66, 163 A. 442). Answers were filed setting up invalidity of the tax sales, and under chapter 202 of the Laws of 1925 (p. 480 [Comp. St. Supp. § 33—144 et seq]) proceedings were stayed in that court to permit the owner to apply to the Supreme Court for writs of certiorari to review the legality of the tax sales.

Application for such writs was made to a justice of the Supreme Court, his allocatur was given, and the writs issued. Thereafter, and before return to the writs had been made, notice was given by counsel for the township of a motion to vacate the allocatur previously allowed. This motion was granted without prejudice to the right of appellant to apply to the Supreme Court (see 161 A. 51, 10 N. J. Misc. 747). From the order granting the motion to vacate the allocatur in each case, these appeals are taken.

Without entering into the questions involved in the sales proceedings, we are of opinion that the appellant is without standing in this court. The power to grant writs of certiorari, with a single exception, resides inherently in the...