Sickles v. Manhattan Gas-Light Co.

— It is urged by the learned counsel for the defendant that the Laws of 1859 {chap. 11) provide for the appointment of a state inspector, by whom every gas meter, before it is used by the defendant, shall be tested and sealed, and that such meter is by the statute made .the legal measure of gas, as between the consumer and the company, and that, as the same statute is careful to provide, that in case a consumer shall question the correctness of any meter, the company is required to test it, in the presence of the consumer, if required, and that if then dissatisfied with the test made by the…