Content Note

Public Service Corporation was incorporated in New Jersey on 6 May 1903. While the corporation's main activities included the generation, distribution, and sale of electricity, several of its subsidiary companies were involved in transportation services. This series consists of a set of legal briefs compiled by Public Service Corporation's law department for court cases involving its subsidiaries during the years 1926-1933. The majority of the cases involve appeals to judgments in bodily injury suits brought against the following: Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Public Service Coordinated Transport, Public Service Interstate Transportation Company, Public Service Railway Company, Public Service Transportation Company, United Engineers and Constructors, and Yellow Cab Company, Inc.

The volumes contain briefs for both plaintiff and defendants, arranged alphabetically by plaintiff's name. Each volume includes an index listing the cases it contains. Cases in which a Public Service subsidiary is plaintiff are indexed also by the defendant's name. The volumes were transferred to the Archives by New Jersey Transit, a corporate descendent of Public Service Coordinated Transport.

NOTE: For a complete history of Public Service and its related companies see James and Richard Coniff's The Energy People: A History of PSE&G (1978) and Robert I. Smith's A Cycle of Service: The Story of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (1980).