Richman v. . Consolidated Gas Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 26, 1906, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion for an -injunction pendente lite and granted such motion.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 26, 1906, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion for an -injunction pendente lite and granted such motion. The questions certified are: 1. Whether or not the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to entertain this action ? 2. Whether or not, if the Supreme Court did have jurisdiction to entertain this action, it ought to have entertained jurisdiction in view of the principle of comity? The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
The defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing gas and conducting and supplying the same to consumers in the city of Rew York. The plaintiff occupies a room in Ro. 484 Sixth avenue in said city, and is a consumer of gas furnished by the defendant. Prior to the first day of May, 1906, the maximum price which the defendant was authorized to charge such consumer was one dollar per thousand cubic feet, but after that date the maximum price which it was permitted to charge was reduced to eighty cents per thousand cubic feet by order df the gas commission and by the…
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