
    Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. New York Telephone Company, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent.
    (Claim No. 29000.)
    (Claim No. 29001.)
    (Claim No. 29002.)
    Argued February 28, 1951;
    decided April 5, 1951.
    
      
      Jacob H. Goetz and Henry 8. Reeder for Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., appellant.
    
      Frank A. Fritz, Ralph W. Brown and A. T. Antinozzi for New York Telephone Company, appellant.
    
      Edmund B. Naylon and George Foster, Jr., for Brooklyn Union Gas Company, appellant.
    
      Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General' (Daniel M. Cohen and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for respondent.
   In each case: Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Loughban, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Dye, Fuld and Fboessel, JJ.  