Attorney General v. Haverhill Gas Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July 8, 1912, under St. 1906, c. 372, by the Attorney General at the relation of the commissioner of corporations, to restrain the Haverhill Gas Light Company, a corporation created by St. 1853, c. 8, amended by St. 1853, c. 163, from selling and transferring its franchise and property to the Haverhill Gas Company, a corporation recently organized under the general laws of this Commonwealth.
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Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July 8, 1912, under St. 1906, c. 372, by the Attorney General at the relation of the commissioner of corporations, to restrain the Haverhill Gas Light Company, a corporation created by St. 1853, c. 8, amended by St. 1853, c. 163, from selling and transferring its franchise and property to the Haverhill Gas Company, a corporation recently organized under the general laws of this Commonwealth. The case came on to be heard before Morton, J., who reserved it for determination by the full court.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an information in equity brought under St. 1906, c. 372, which authorizes this court at the relation of the Attorney General to restrain any corporation “from assuming or exercising any franchise or privilege or transacting any kind of business not authorized by the charter of such corporation and the laws of this Commonwealth.” The bill alleges in substance, that the defendant, having for a long time been engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling gas for light and heat in the city of Haverhill, is about to sell “all of its franchises and property in the said city,…
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