In re Complaint of Harris Design Servs. v. Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. (Slip Opinion)

*140 {¶ 1} A public-utility company claims that it gave its customer adequate notice *860 that natural-gas service to the customer's property had been disconnected by hanging two notices on the front door of the property. The customer, who was not occupying the property, did not discover the notices and thus did not realize that the gas had been disconnected until the pipes froze and burst, causing damage. Whether the utility company furnished adequate notice of the service disconnection is the main question in this appeal from orders of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio ("PUCO"). We conclude…