Jones v. Rochester Gas & Electric Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Rochester Gas and Electric Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Circuit and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 20th day of November, 1895, denying the defendant’s, motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, the Rochester Gas and Electric Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Circuit and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 20th day of November, 1895, denying the defendant’s, motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was 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…
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, 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, and it is not seemly that those 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 range…
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