Jamaica Gas Light Co. v. Nixon

The plaintiff -moves for a temporary injunction, to be effective during the pendency of this action, which is brought to have declared unconstitutional as against itself, chapter 125 of the Laws of 1906, restraining the defendants from enforcing the provisions of an enactment which fixed at one dollar per 1,000 cubic feet the price of gas in the fourth ward of the borough of Queens, where the plaintiff’s business is located. At the outset it is to be observed that the plaintiff does not manufacture any gas. It is a distributing company, which purchases its gas from the Brooklyn Union Gas…