City of New Bern v. Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corp.

BIGGS, Judge.

This appeal arises from a dispute between competing electric companies over the right to provide electric service to the Havelock Animal Hospital, in Havelock, North Carolina. The pertinent facts are as follows: The plaintiff, City of New Bern (New Bern), is a municipal corporation in Craven County. It owns and operates a municipal electric distribution system, serving customers both in New Bern, and beyond its corporate limits. Havelock, a municipal corporation about sixteen miles from New Bern, does not have a municipal electric system. New Bern has served customers in Havelock…