106 N.Y.S. 407 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1907
In the year 1884, by an instrument in writing duly executed, and dated September twenty-seventh of that year, and filed in the clerk’s office of the county of Hew York and in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany on the 10th day of Hovember, 1884, the following duly chartered companies, existing and doing business under general or special laws of this State in the manufacturing business of making and distributing gas, to wit: Th&Hew York Gas Light Company, The Manhattan Gas Light Company, The Metropolitan Gas Light Company of the City of Hew York, The Municipal Gas Light Company of the City of Hew York", The Knickerbocker Gas Light Company and The Harlem Gas Light Company, agreed to a consolidation of their different enterprises in accordance with the terms and provisions of an act entitled “An act to authorize the consolidation of manufacturing corporations,” and known as chapter 367 of the Laws of 1884. From that date down to the present time the various businesses that had been theretofore conducted by the several distinct entities above named were continued by the amalgamated companies under the name and title of The Consolidated Gas Company of Hew York. And now comes the Attorney-General of the State petitioning the court for its permission (the granting of which rests in
Motion denied.