John Marshall Harlan Quote

An English historian, contrasting the London of his day with the London of the time when its streets, supplied only with oil-lamps, were scenes of nightly robberies, says that "the adventurers in gas-lights did more for the prevention of crime than the government had done since the days of Alfred".


New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. (1885)


An English historian, contrasting the London of his day with the London of the time when its streets, supplied only with oil-lamps, were scenes of...

An English historian, contrasting the London of his day with the London of the time when its streets, supplied only with oil-lamps, were scenes of...

An English historian, contrasting the London of his day with the London of the time when its streets, supplied only with oil-lamps, were scenes of...

An English historian, contrasting the London of his day with the London of the time when its streets, supplied only with oil-lamps, were scenes of...