Brooklyn Borough Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Harry E. Lewis, as district attorney, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of September, 1916, denying his motion to change the venue of this action from the county of New York to the county of Kings.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action is brought by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company against the Public Service Commission for the First District, the City of Hew York, Egburt E. Woodbury, as Attorney-General of the State of Hew York, and Harry E. Lewis, as district attorney of Kings county, to enjoin them from taking any proceedings by mandamus or by suit for penalty or otherwise from enforcing what is called “ The Eighty-Cent Gas Law ” (Laws of 1906, chap. 125), made applicable to the plaintiff corporation by the amendments made by chapter 604 of the Laws of 1916. All parties are content to have the action…
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