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TitleAttorney General at the relation of the Cambridge University and Town Gas Company versus the Cambridge Consumers Gas Company
DescriptionThe Cambridge Improvement Commissioners had an existing contract, dated 1834, with the Cambridge University and Town Gas Company to provide the lighting of the town. In 1867 they entered into a new contract with the Cambridge Consumers' Gas Light Company for a contract beginning on the 1 June 1868. This company had no existing pipe work, street lighting or facilities. The former gas company took action against the Consumers' Gas Light Company and the Commissioners to try to restrain them from breaking up the streets of the town and causing a public nuisance. The case revolved around whether the Cambridge Consumers' Gas Light Company, acting under the authority of the Commissioners could break up the streets or whether they needed an act of parliament to enable them to do it. The Vice-Chancellor, Mr Malins, supported the case in favor of the new company, however by the time the case was presented in court the Commissioners had cancelled the existing contract as on 1 Jun 1868, when the contract was to begin, only 5 miles of the total 20 miles of piping had been laid so the company were in no position to fulfill the requirements of the contract.
Date1868
CreatorNameCambridge Improvement Commissioners
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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