“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."”

1880s, New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. (1885)

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