SILCO AUTO. VENDING CO. v. PUMA


105 N.J. Super. 72 (1969)

251 A.2d 147

SILCO AUTOMATIC VENDING COMPANY, A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF, v. FRANK A. PUMA, LICENSE INSPECTOR, CENTRAL LICENSE BUREAU, CITY OF ELIZABETH AND THE MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANTS. DIERICKX MUSIC, INC., A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF, v. FRANK A. PUMA, LICENSE INSPECTOR OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH AND THE MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

Decided February 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Allan Gutfleish for plaintiff Silco Automatic Vending Company (Messrs. Weitz, Gutfleish and Wurtzel, attorneys).

Mr. Joseph A. Hayden for plaintiff Dierickx Music, Inc.

Mr. Frank P. Trocino, First Assistant City Attorney, for defendants (Mr. Edward W. McGrath, City Attorney, attorney; Mr. John R. Weigel on the brief).


FELLER, J.S.C.

These consolidated actions in lieu of prerogative writs seek to compel the issuance of coin-operated music machine licenses and to declare invalid section 7 of ordinance 260 of the City of Elizabeth.

With reference to the Silco Automatic Vending Company case it is stipulated that when the ordinance was enacted on February 8, 1967, and ever since that time, there were never any licenses available because those outstanding were in excess...

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