The herald., 1896-07-09
THE Governors MUST CO
Judge McKinley's Opinion
on the Matter
THE RECENT RECORD damage SUIT
Mrs. Rott Refuses to Be Consid-
cred Crazy
JUSTICES JUSTICE AGAIN
Gnavish, the Indian, Sent Up for twenty
A Poor Little Chinese Maid Escapes the Tolls
at Pasadena
HaIiis comsteck Goes Fres New Citizens
Eniist Under the Piag-Ths Jury to Try
Bennett-New Suits FlIed-0en.
JUSTICES JUSTICE AGAIN
Gnavish, the Indian, Sent Up for twenty
Years
A Poor Little Chinese Maid Escapes the Tolls
at Pasadena
HALLE comstecis Goes Free New Citizens
Eniist Under the FlsK-Ths Jury to Try
Bennett-New Suits Filed-0en.
eral Court Notes

The ill-feeling that has existed be-
tween the Gas Consumers Protective
association and the Los Angeles Light
ing company will scarcely be healed by
the opinion handed down in the case
recently tried in department six.
To disinterested outsiders. however.
the view Of the matter taken by the
court will seem eminently fair and just.
The action was instituted to restrain the
defendant company from removing gas
regulators or governors placed by the
plaintiff association in connection with
the pipe supplying consumers through
out the city with gas THE case now
comes before the coure." says Judge Nc
Kinley in his opinion, upon a motion
to dissolve the injunction restraining
the defendant from removing the regula-
tors.
1T appears from the showing made
upon their motion that these regulators
are variously placed. sometimes being
located between different portions of the
meter connections, and sometimes be-
tween the meter connections and the
rise pipe belonging to the consumer.
1.-THE law as to the right of the owner
of property to have these regulators
put In is Of course dependent upon the
manner in which they are placed.
Counsel have discussed very thor
oughly the rights of the defendant COM
pany with reference to the control Of its
meters and meter connections and the
right Of the consumer to have regulators
put in, but much Of the discussion per-
tains to matters involved in another
branch of the case not now before the
court, and I shall confine myself strictly
to the decision Of the motion before me.
1.-THE only question presented is.
whether the plaintiff can complain of
interference with these regulators. I
am of the opinion that it cannot, for this
reason:
THE duty. as we'll as the right, of the
defendant company is to do business di-
gas directly to him, not through the
pipes and appliances of some other party.
rf one such party can intervene there Is
no limit to the number
"If the regulator is attached to the
meter connections as the property of
plaintiff and under its control, 1t inter-
feres with the direct connection between
the defendant and its customer, and is
improperly there; and defendant has
the right to take 1t out and connect di-
rectly with the pipes Of the consumer.
unless he desires to be altogether dis
connected.
III. on the other hand. the regulator
is leased to the consumer, and under
his control, he is the only person that
can complain of an interference with it.
I'm the one case the plaintiff is an in
truder; in the other he has no interest in
the controversy sufficient to give him the
right to maintain an injunction.
1t cannot be said that the plaintiff
has the right to have the regulator re-
main because he has contracted with the
consumer, as the consumer cannot make
q contract which affects the right of the
defendant. Let the injunction be dis
solved.