Jones v. Hawaiian Elec. Co., Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, J.

This is an appeal brought by complainants, a group of electricity subscribers of appellee Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO), from an order of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) dismissing a complaint filed by complainants which requested the PUC to disallow alease agreement between HECO and the Trustees of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate (Bishop) covering property in Heeia Kea Valley, Kaneohe, Oahu. We have carefully examined the pertinent issues, and we conclude that the PUC was correct in dismissing the complaint.

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On March 29, 1965, HECO entered into a lease…