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NEWTON v. CONSOLIDATED GAS CO.

Nos. 750, 751, 752, 753, 832, 833, 844, 845.

259 U.S. 101 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 438

66 L.Ed. 844

NEWTON, AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL. v. CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY OF NEW YORK. SAME v. NEW YORK & QUEENS GAS COMPANY. SAME v. CENTRAL UNION GAS COMPANY. SAME v. NORTHERN UNION GAS COMPANY. SAME v. NEW YORK MUTUAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY. SAME v. STANDARD GAS LIGHT COMPANY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. SAME v. NEW AMSTERDAM GAS COMPANY. SAME v. EAST RIVER GAS COMPANY OF LONG ISLAND CITY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harry Hertzoff, with whom Mr. Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of the State of New York, Mr. Wilber W. Chambers, Mr. John P. O'Brien, Mr. Clarence R. Cummings and Mr. James A. Donnelly were on the briefs, for appellants in Nos. 750 and 751.

Mr. William Schuyler Jackson, with whom Mr. John P. O'Brien, was on the brief, for appellants in Nos. 752 and 753.

Mr. Judson Hyatt, with whom Mr. Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of the State of New York, Mr. Wilber W. Chambers, Mr. Clarence R. Cummings, Mr. John P. O'Brien, Mr. James A. Donnelly and Mr. Harry Hertzoff were on the briefs, for appellants in Nos. 832, 833, 844 and 845.

Mr. John A. Garver and Mr. William L. Ransom, with whom Mr. Charles A. Vilas and Mr. Jacob W. Goetz were on the briefs, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

These are appeals in separate but related causes wherein the Consolidated Gas Company of New York and certain of its subsidiary and affiliated corporations alleged that the maximum selling rate for gas prescribed by c. 125, Laws of New York, 1906, was confiscatory and asked that its enforcement be enjoined.

The principal issues between the original parties in Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co...

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