Pledger v. Public Utilities Commission

Background

{¶ 1} Capital Properties Management, Inc. (“CPM”) owns and manages an apartment complex known as Hunt Club Apartments located in Copley, Ohio. Tobi Pledger and Mary Sliwinski were tenants of apartment units at Hunt' Club Apartments.

{¶ 2} In January 2004, CPM began charging tenants for water metered at their apartment units. The ultimate source of the water was the city of Akron Water Department. CPM billed individual tenants for water based on Akron’s water rate, plus an administrative charge of ten percent.

{¶ 3} Also in January 2004, CPM began billing individual tenants for sewer…