Root v. New Britain Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the respondent from an order of the Public Utilities Commission granting an application of the petitioners for an extended gas service in the town of Newington, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County (Case, J.), which found that the Commission had exceeded its powers in passing the order in question and rendered judgment in favor of the respondent, from which the petitioners appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The New Britain Gas Light Company is a Connecticut corporation empowered by its charter to manufacture and sell gas for lighting and other purposes in the town and city of New Britain and the adjoining towns of Berlin and Newington. It has never undertaken to furnish service or exercise its franchise in the latter town and has no mains, conduits or other equipment within it necessary for that purpose. Maple Hill is a section of that town lying easterly of the New Britain line and distant approximately twelve thousand feet, measured along the highway, from the Company’s nearest main.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of Norwalk v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1914
3Cited by13 opinions
- Thayer v. Board of AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
- Mad River Co. v. Town of WolcottSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
- Modeste v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- State ex rel. City of Wheeling v. RenickWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1960
- Cedar Island Improvement Assn. v. Clinton Electric Light & Power Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1955
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