Legal Opinion
Niagara Falls Power Co. v. Water Power & Control Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 30, 1932PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
We are reviewing, under an order of certiorari, a resolution of the Water Power and Control Commission, adopted October 9, 1930, fixing an annual rental to be paid by the petitioner of five dollars per horse power on 500 cubic feet per second of Water diverted from the Niagara river for power purposes. It is undisputed that the flowage of one cubic foot of water per second produces twenty-one horse power annually. Chapter 596 of the Laws of 1918 permitted the organization of petitioner by the merger of three then existing corporations, Cliff Electrical Distributing Company, The Niagara Falls…
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