Newton v. Kings County Lighting Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Appeal from a decree enjoining enforcement of a statutory gas rate as confiscatory. See also the preceding cases, ante, 165, 178.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
This is an appeal from' a final decree entered October 19, 1920, which enjoined the enforcement of c. 125, Laws of New York of 1906, ahd also the Act of New York Legislature approved May 9, 1916, c. 604, Laws of 1916. 268 Fed. 143. The first of these statutes fixed the price which appellee might charge for gas distributed in New York City at $1.00 per thousand cubic- feet, and the second amended the earlier one by reducing the maximuih price to eighty cents.
The original bill filed in May, 1920, alleges that the actual cost to appellee of manufacturing and distributing gas during 1919 and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kings County Lighting Co. v. NixonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1920
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