Legal Opinion
Gifford v. Central Maine Power Company
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 18, 1966PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEBBER, Justice.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Public Utilities Commission taken pursuant to 35 M.R.S.A. Sec. 303. Complainants are all residential customers of the respondent utility and are all connected with the fuel oil business. They complain that as ratepayers they are aggrieved by a practice instituted by the respondent of offering certain promotional allowances designed to encourage and promote increased use of electric energy by residential customers. They assert that these practices are “unreasonable, unlawful and unjustly discriminatory” and thus in violation of 35…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1957
- In re the City Ice & Fuel Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1940
- Vitacolonna v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
- Rossi v. GartonNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1965
3Cited by5 opinions
- Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
- Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- Maine Water Co. v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
- State v. Oklahoma Gas and Electric CompanySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1975
- Holmquist v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1994