State Ex Rel. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of West Virginia v. Ashworth

NEELY, Justice:

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia (hereinafter C & P) seeks to prohibit the Honorable John C. Ashworth, Judge of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, from conducting further proceedings in a lawsuit filed by Beekley Hospital, Inc. (hereinafter the hospital) against C & P. C & P contends that the circuit court lacks subject matter jurisdiction because the hospital failed to exhaust its administrative remedies or, in the alternative, that the circuit court should refrain and defer to the Public Service Commission (hereinafter PSC) because the issues…