New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co. v. Long Island Machine & Marine Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the. defendant, the Long Island Machine and Marine Construction Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 13th day of March, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28tli day of March, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made up,on the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The action was brought by the plaintiff, a .quasi-public corporation engaged in selling electric current for light and power, upon' an express contract made with the defendant, a manufacturing corporation engaged in repair work, in which contract the defendant agreed to pay for the electric current furnished by the plaintiff *553“ at the rate of ten (10) cents for each horse-power hour, as measured at -and. by the meter provided by the (plaintiff) company.” The defendant used the current and paid the monthly bills rendered therefor for a period of three years, when, on August 20,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sickles v. Manhattan Gas-Light Co.New York Supreme Court · 1884
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