Natural Gas Products Co. v. Thurman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Sustaining the motion and granting the writ of prohibition.

The plaintiff, Natural Gas Products Company, is a foreign corporation and has constructed an extensive plant in Green county, Kentucky, with machinery necessary for manufacturing out of natural gas a commercial product known as “carbon black,” which product, as shown by the record, is extensively used in the manufae*101ture of a number of other useful commercial articles; and it further appears that in the manufacture of such other products there is no effectual substitute for “carbon black.” The grand…