Hough v. State

The claimant seeks to recover for services rendered at the request of the Attorney-General, and under *27a contract made with him as an expert witness in the so-called Consolidated Gas Case;

One of the questions in that case was, whether the Consolidated Gas Company could manufacture gas at eighty cents at a fair profit. The gas company had given a large amount of testimony as to the value of its property invested in that business as bearing upon the question of the cost of production. The Attorney-General and the counsel acting for him thought it very material and important to show that the…