Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01
JUDGMENT GIVEN
For the city, In the Case Against the Nat
ural Gas Company of West Virginia.

For the city, In the Case Against the Nat
ural Gas Company Of West Virginia.
The case Of thu city of Wheeling v. the
Natural Gas Company of West Virgins, in
which the corporation is charged with q
violstion Of the recently enacted ordinance
fixing an assizs Of bread, coal and nstur-
81 gss" was resumed before Judge LETTERS,
in the Police Court, at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, and st the close of the hear
ing judgment was given fer the city, tire
fine being placed an the nominal sum of
S12 and costs, by mutual consent, to admit
Of an appeal tos higher Court.
There were quite large number of iu-
terested parties in the Court room during
the hearing, among them Chairman Raw
lings, of the Citizens Committee, which
originated and presented to Council the
''assizs ordinance" and President G. W.
Bachelor, Of the Gas Company, together
with Secretary Heard, Agent Scott, and Mr..
D. T. Watson, of Pitts bargh, a we'll known
attorney Of that city, who had been brought
down in the interest of the corporation to
watch the initiatory proceedings of what
promises to be long and bitterly con-
tested legal fight, and get his bearings, so
that at the proper time he may be enabled
to take an intelligent part in the proceed.
irgs.
1t will be remembered that at the open
ing Of the csse in the Police Court, last
Saturday, the defendant company made
several motions, alleging that the original
summons was not legal, that the return
was made in less than the ten days allowed
by law, that the ''assizs" ordinance was
invalid, snd lastly, that the ordinance wac
unreasonable. These points having there
been covered by arguments of counsel
the Court overruled 80 many of the mo-
tions al related TO the service and the suf.
fciepcy of the summons and the hearing
upon the other matters was deferred until
yesterday.
As preliminary, the defendant COM
pany rendered its bill of exceptions to the
orders of the Court made upon the previ-
GUS days hearing, and there was long
aud exceedingly tiresome wrangle between
the counsel over the useless formality of
rendering such papers in Police Court.
Finally matters were Strengthened out,
and the defense upon its motion to dis
miss, put Mr.. Charles Scott, of the
Office force in this city, on the
stand. Mr.. Scott testified that he was
now conducting personally meter test of
the amount of gas burned in an ordinary
CRATE, end as far as he had got. he was Of
the opinion that the price through meter,
at present rates, would be about seven
cents per thousand cubic feet. On cross
examination, he admitted that he had no
CRATE in use IN making his test, but used
a CRATE burned simply, aud that there was
q regulator upon the line 10 the burner,
while moot CRATES throughout the city have
no such regulator. He also admitted that
Captain Dillon had applied for permission
to make meter test, bat that no such test
had bsen made by the Captain, for some
reason. He could not say positively that
permission had been refused, but he
thought 10 test had bsen made.
Mr.. John G. Huffman, Jr, was put
upon the stand by the city, and produ-
ced his contract with the city, which show
ed thst he was being charged higher
price than was allowed by the 'assze"
ordinance. Judgment was then given as
above.