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NEWARK NATURAL GAS & FUEL CO. v. NEWARK

No. 232.

242 U.S. 405 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 156

61 L.Ed. 393

NEWARK NATURAL GAS & FUEL COMPANY v. CITY OF NEWARK, OHIO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 8, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James R. Fitzgibbon, with whom Mr. Eugene Mackey, Mr. S.M. Douglass and Mr. Charles Montgomery were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Frank A. Bolton, with whom Mr. Edward Kibler and Mr. Ralph Norpell were on the briefs, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The question upon which our jurisdiction is here invoked is whether an ordinance of the City of Newark, Ohio, passed March 6, 1911, fixing the maximum price that plaintiff in error might charge to consumers of natural gas in that city for a period of five years at 20 cents per thousand cubic feet, with 10% discount for prompt payment, a rate described as "18 cents net," is confiscatory, and therefore in violation...

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