Langley v. East River Gas Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal oy the defendant, the East River Gas Company of Long Island City, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 13th day of June, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of June, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This is a suit for malicious prosecution. The plaintiff was the occupant of premises in Long Island City to which gas was furnished by the defendant. In January, 1897, the defendant’s chief engineer made a complaint against him before a justice of the peace, charging him with having violated the provisions of subdivision 1 of section 651 of the Penal Code, under which it is made a misdemeanor to connect any contrivance with a pipe used for supplying illuminating gas in such a manner as to supply such gas to any burner where it can be used without passing through the meter…
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