Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1909 — EIGHTY-GENT GAS IS LEGAL IN NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

EIGHTY-GENT GAS IS LEGAL IN NEW YORK

Company Will Have to Refund Big Sum to Consumers. Washington. Jan. s.—Speaking for the entire membership of the supreme court of the United States, Justice Peckham announced the decision in the cases of the public service commission of New York, the city of New York and the attorney general of New York vs. The Consolidated Gas Company of New York city, which involved the validity of the 80-cent gas law of that city. » In eff<*ct the decision upheld the law. but It closed with the intimation that if after practical test the rate fixed should prove to be unremunerative, the gas company should have the privilege of renewing the case. Thousands of persons who have been paying higher rates hold receipts e»titling them to rebates that will amount to an enormous sum.