A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of the United States of America, and Great Britain and Her Colonies, Relating to the Rights and Liabilities of Gas Companies: Together with Extracts from the Statutes of the Various United States Concerning Gas Companies |
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... of . 4. Exclusive rights under Debt . Debts • Defences Demurrer Deposit Directors Dividends Civil war Compensation Composition Dockage . Duty of gas companies PAGE Easement Embezzlement Injunction Ejectment 1. Against laying pipes 2.
... of . 4. Exclusive rights under Debt . Debts • Defences Demurrer Deposit Directors Dividends Civil war Compensation Composition Dockage . Duty of gas companies PAGE Easement Embezzlement Injunction Ejectment 1. Against laying pipes 2.
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... Injunction Ejectment 1. Against laying pipes 2. For divers causes 78 • 82 Election Inspection 83 Eminent domain Insurance 84 Equity Estoppel . Evidence • 1. Expert testimony 2. Books of account 3. Meaning of words . 4. Similar cases . 5 ...
... Injunction Ejectment 1. Against laying pipes 2. For divers causes 78 • 82 Election Inspection 83 Eminent domain Insurance 84 Equity Estoppel . Evidence • 1. Expert testimony 2. Books of account 3. Meaning of words . 4. Similar cases . 5 ...
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... Injunction . - Distress . Statute . - Under an act allowing gas companies to levy by distress all sums due for gas , and an amendment in which such sum due for gas is spoken of as " rent , " a gas company attached and sold the goods of ...
... Injunction . - Distress . Statute . - Under an act allowing gas companies to levy by distress all sums due for gas , and an amendment in which such sum due for gas is spoken of as " rent , " a gas company attached and sold the goods of ...
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... injunction and to have their rights declared to lay down pipes ; and it was held that , the consent having been once given by the commissioners , the gas company , under the wording of their act , had the right to go on and lay other ...
... injunction and to have their rights declared to lay down pipes ; and it was held that , the consent having been once given by the commissioners , the gas company , under the wording of their act , had the right to go on and lay other ...
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... Injunction . - Property of City . - Power of Corporation . The defendants were chartered under an act which inhibited them from digging up the streets of the city until the consent of the city government was obtained . On an application ...
... Injunction . - Property of City . - Power of Corporation . The defendants were chartered under an act which inhibited them from digging up the streets of the city until the consent of the city government was obtained . On an application ...
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act of Parliament action for damages action to recover aforesaid amount ASSUMPSIT authorized capital stock caused certificate chap charter Coke Co contract Contributory Negligence corporation court debts defendants directors dollars duties easement escape of gas ESTOPPEL evidence explosion of gas franchise furnish gas Gas Co gas company gas fixtures gas furnished Gas Light gas or water gas supplied Gas-Light & Coke gas-light company gas-meters gas-works held highway illuminating gas incorporated injunction inspection inspector jury lay gas-pipes lay pipes leak liable Light & Coke main pipe mandamus manufacture meter municipal N. Y. Supreme Norwich City notice nuisance ordinance Orleans owner paid pany payment person plaintiff premises price of gas privileges purpose quo warranto real estate recover damages refusal to supply service pipe STATUTES stockholders streets subscribed supply gas supply of gas thereof tion Ultra Vires village water or gas
Popular passages
Page 243 - ... shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted...
Page 257 - ... shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years.
Page 228 - Each subscriber to such articles of association shall subscribe thereto his name, place of residence and the number of shares he agrees to take in said company.
Page 242 - ... of capital, and of the proportion actually paid in, and the amount of its existing debts...
Page 241 - ... when any vacancy shall happen among the trustees, by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be filled for the remainder of the year in such manner as may be provided for by the by-laws of the said company.
Page 228 - On compliance with the provisions of the next section, such articles of association may be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall indorse thereon the day they are filed, and record the same in a book to be provided by him for that purpose ; and thereupon the persons who have so subscribed such articles of association...
Page 241 - All elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he owns shares of stock...
Page 233 - If any certificate or report made, or public notice given, by the officers of any such company, in pursuance of the provisions of this act. shall be false in any material representation, all the officers who shall have signed the same, knowing it to be false, shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company contracted while they are stockholders or officers thereof.
Page 232 - That all the stockholders incorporated under this act shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively...
Page 271 - ... or any engine, machine or structure, or any matter or thing appertaining to the same, shall be stopped, obstructed, impaired, weakened, injured or destroyed, the person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and...