Irving Reingold and Philip Stark, Partners Doing Business as Rein Motors, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Harry C. Harper…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey upheld the constitutionality of the 1949 statute prohibiting self‑service gasoline dispensing, finding it a valid exercise of the police power with a rational relation to public safety. The Court rejected the plaintiffs' due‑process claim, and a dissent argued the law was an arbitrary restraint on property rights.