Legal Opinion
Sullivan v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 7, 1951PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, C.J.
Twenty individuals and the city of Boston, all as consumers of gas supplied by the defendant, bring this bill in behalf of themselves and of all other consumers for the purpose of securing refunds of sums which they contend were wrongfully exacted from them by the defendant in the period from July 1, 1942, to August 1, 1946, under the terms of a fuel charge which the department of public utilities had ordered the defendant to incorporate in its filed rates. The Superior Court sustained the company’s demurrer and also a plea in bar and dismissed the bill. The plaintiffs appeal. As we are…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Karrick v. WetmoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- City of Boston v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Shears v. Metropolitan Transit AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Boston Consolidated Gas Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Gurney Heater Manufacturing Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Spence v. Boston Edison Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Lowell Gas Co. v. Attorney GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Boston Edison Co. v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Haverhill Gas Co. v. FindlenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
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