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NEWTON v. CONSOLIDATED GAS CO.

No. 565.

265 U.S. 78 (1924)

44 S.Ct. 481

68 L.Ed. 909

NEWTON, AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL., v. CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 12, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harry Hertzoff, with whom Mr. George P. Nicholson, Mr. Carl Sherman, Attorney General of the State of New York, Mr. Wilber W. Chambers and Mr. James A. Donnelly were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John A. Garver, for appellee, submitted.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an equitable action to enjoin the continued enforcement of c. 125 of the Laws of New York of 1906, which fixed at 80 cents a thousand feet the price at which gas was to be furnished to private consumers in the various boroughs in the City of New York, on the ground that the rate was confiscatory and violated the rights of the Company under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the...

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