Kings County Lighting Co. v. Woodbury
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Kings County Lighting Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of January, 1917, appointing a referee to hear and determine the issues herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The sole question of law presented on this appeal is as to the power of the court to make a compulsory order of reference.
The action is in equity and is brought to restrain, for alleged unconstitutionality, the enforcement of chapter 604 of the Laws of 1916, amending chapter 125 of the Laws of 1906, the effect of the amendment being to reduce the price of gas supplied to others than the city of New York, in the thirtieth and thirty-first wards of the city of Brooklyn, from one dollar per 1,000 cubic feet to eighty cents. The plaintiff’s field of operation comprises the territory…
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