Legal Opinion
Boston Gas Co. v. Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 12, 1989PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The Boston Gas Company (company), by this appeal from an order of the Department of Public Utilities (department), challenges those aspects of the department’s 1988 rate decision that disallowed certain advertising expenses and all charitable contributions as costs of service that could be recognized in the company’s rates charged to its customers. The case is before us on a reservation and report by a single justice of this court.
The first issue concerns the department’s refusal on the record before it to recognize the company’s institutional or image advertising as a cost of service. The…
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