People Ex Rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCall
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 10, 1916, which sustained a writ of certiorari and annulled an order of the defendant public service commission.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 10, 1916, which sustained a writ of certiorari and annulled an order of the defendant public service commission. Certain residents and property owners of Douglaston and Douglas Manor in the third ward of the borough of Queens, New York city, applied to the public service commission of the first district for an order requiring the relator in this proceeding, the New York and Queens Gas Company, to extend its gas mains and services in such manner as may be necessary reasonably to…
1Opinion of the CourtCuddeback, J.
The public service commissions are authorized by law “to order reasonable improvements and extensions of the works, wires, poles, lines, conduits, ducts and other reasonable devices, apparatus and property of gas corporations, electrical corporations and municipalities.” (Pub. Serv. Comm. Law [Cons. Laws, ch. 48], § 66.)
Under the authority of this statute the public service commission for the first district made the order requiring the relator to extend its gas mains and services to meet the reasonable requirements of Douglaston and Douglas Manor.
In applying the provisions of this statute the…
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