Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Town of Mt. Pleasant

Harwell, Justice:

This case involves the issue of whether the trial judge properly denied appellant South Carolina Electric & Gas Company’s motion to intervene pursuant to Rule 24, SCRCP.

*188I. FACTS

On September 28, 1988, respondent Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Berkeley Electric) initiated the present action solely against Mt. Pleasant. Berkeley Electric alleged that Mt. Pleasant had interfered with its extension of service to new customers by informing the developers of Longpointe Subdivision, a newly annexed area of Mt. Pleasant, that Berkeley Electric did not have the right to provide…