Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Electric Plant Board

MILLIKEN, Judge.

Here we have a jurisdictional dispute between two publicly owned public utilities about which one gets to supply electricity to a proposed new subdivision on the outskirts of the City of Bowling Green. In deciding the issue in favor of the Electric Plant Board of the City of Bowling Green, the learned chancellor, Hon. John B. Rodes, commented:

“Unless the parties carry out the true purpose and meaning of the statute (KRS 96.890) through some mutual agreement as to their respective fields and territories where they touch or clash, then it may result in some situation like the…