Jones v. Rochester Gas & Electric Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from circuit court. Action by W. Martin Jones against the Rochester Gas & Electric Company. The jury found a verdict in favor of plaintiff. Defendant moved for a new trial on the minutes. The motion was denied, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from circuit court. Action by W. Martin Jones against the Rochester Gas & Electric Company. The jury found a verdict in favor of plaintiff. Defendant moved for a new trial on the minutes. The motion was denied, and defendant appeals. Action commenced on the 17th day of December, 1894. Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that he is the occupant of a dwelling house situate on South Union street, in the city of Rochester, numbered 87, and that he has been such occupant for five years, and that the house is properly plumbed, and supplied with gas pipes and fixtures for the lighting of the same…
1Opinion of the CourtHardin, P. J.
Numerous questions are presented in this case similar to those which have been discussed and passed upon in the action which arose in the municipal court, and was tried in the county court, and brought before us at this term (39 N. Y. Supp. 1105), and it is not seemly that the questions should again be discussed.
The trial judge, in his charge to the jury, said:
“There is only one disputed question of fact here for you to decide, and that is a very simple one; and that is whether or not the six hundred feet of gas which flowed through the fuel meter from the 22d of April, from the time the…
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- The People v. . the New-York Central Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1855
- People v. New York Central Rail RoadNew York Supreme Court · 1855
- Sickles v. Manhattan Gas-Light Co.New York Supreme Court · 1882
- State ex rel. Barton Co. v. Kansas City, Ft. S. & G. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1887
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