Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. v. Joseph Chevrolet Co.

{¶ 1} A public utility backbilled its customer for unmetered gas consumption over a 23-month period. The need to backbill was caused by the public utility’s mistakes. We are asked to decide whether the public utility met its burden of proof as to the amount of the bill, whether the public utility’s customer could assert the equitable-defenses of laches and estoppel to preclude its obligation to pay for the unmetered services it received, and whether these issues fell under the trial court’s subject-matter jurisdiction. We conclude that the public utility demonstrated the amount of unmetered…