Village of Long Beach v. Long Beach Power Co.

This is an application for an injunction, pendente lite, restraining the defendant from demanding or collecting more than fifteen cents per kilowatt hour for electrical lighting current furnished by the defendant to private consumers in Long Beach, Nassau county, N. Y., and for other relief.

At the threshold of the controversy there is presented a question which, as I view it, is determinative of the rights of the parties to this action, or at least which is controlling in so far as the right of the plaintiffs to injunctive relief pending the action and until the trial is concerned. Were it…