Duke Power Co. v. Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp.

This action was begun in 1959 to compel defendant to discontinue services to its members residing in Hudson, which although a municipal corporation was a rural area when defendant began furnishing electric service to properties owned or used by its members in Hudson. Hudson joined with Power Co. in seeking to prevent defendant from continuing to provide services to its members and to compel it to remove its lines from the streets of Hudson. Although a rural area when the action was begun, it had ceased to be a rural area when the hearing was had in June 1960. The judgment appealed from…