Kings County Lighting Co. v. Lewis
New York Supreme Court
Action to have chapter 604, Laws of 1916, adjudged unconstitutional.
1Opinion of the CourtGreenbaum, J.
This action is brought by the plaintiff to have declared null and void as to it chapter 604 of the Laws of 1916, effective July 1,1916, which fixed the price of gas sold to the public in the territory served by the plaintiff at eighty cents per 1,000 cubic feet, upon the alleged ground that the enforcement of the statute would be confiscatory of the plaintiff’s property and violative of the Constitution of the United States (art. 1, § 10, el. 1), and the Fourteenth Amendment thereto and of the Constitution of the state of New York (art. 1, §■§ 6 and 7).
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