Bloomfield & Rochester Natural Gas Light Co. v. Richardson
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL, by the,defendants, from an order of the special term of Monroe county, appointing commissioners to appraise the compensation to be paid to Eiehardsou and Calkins, for the right to lay a gas main in the highway in front of their premises, leading from Henrietta to Bochester.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Talcott, J.
The respondent is a corporation, created under the act of 1848, to authorize the formation of gas companies. The object of the formation of the company was to utilize the illuminating and combustible gas,, naturally flowing from what is termed a gas well, situate in Bloomfield, in the county of Ontario, and about thirty miles from the city of Rochester. By an act passed May 9, 1870, to grant additional powers to the Bloomfield and Rochester Natural Gas Light Company, it is provided that the company, in addition to the powers and franchises, conferred upon it by the…
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