Matter of Brooklyn Edison Co. v. Davidson

Petitioner applied to the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity of the city of New York for permits for the construction of transformer manholes and the installation of transformers in fifteen locations in and under public streets in the borough of Brooklyn. That official denied the application for the reason, as stated by him, that he possessed no authority to issue any permit except upon compliance by petitioner with a resolution of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopted January 16,1935, in relation to the installation of transformer vaults. Thereupon petitioner moved for…