Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Woodhaven Gas Light Co. v. Public Service Commission

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 17, 1922PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Page, J.:

The relator is a public service corporation which has a franchise to lay its mains in the streets and supply residents of the town of Jamaica, now the fourth ward of the borough of Queens.

*370The relator manufactures no gas, but purchases all it distributes from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, which owns all the stock of the relator, and whose treasurer is the relator’s president. The Brooklyn Company charged the relator fifty cents per 1,000 cubic feet in 1918, but increased the price to sixty-five cents on January 1, 1919. The relation between the Brooklyn Company and three other…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. New York Ex Rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCallSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
  2. People Ex Rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCallNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
  3. People ex rel. New York Edison Co. v. WillcoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
  4. People ex rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCallAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1916
  5. Jamaica Gas Light Co. v. NixonNew York Supreme Court · 1920

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. New York Ex Rel. Woodhaven Gas Light Co. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  2. State ex rel. City of Wheeling v. RenickWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1960
  3. Georgia Public-Service Commission v. Georgia Power Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1936
  4. Earl Carroll Realty Corp. v. New York Edison Co.New York Supreme Court · 1931
  5. Burlington Transportation Co. v. Iowa State Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1941

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