BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP. v. DUKE POWER CO.

No. 315.

128 S.E.2d 405 (1962)

258 N.C. 278

BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION v. DUKE POWER COMPANY, Defendant, and Charles A. Curtis and wife, Bertie H. Curtis, Additional Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Townsend & Todd by Folger Townsend, Lenoir, Carl Horn, Jr. and William I. Ward, Jr., Charlotte, for appellant Duke Power Co.

A. R. Crisp, Lenoir, for defendants appellants Curtis.

Claude F. Seila and Dickson Whisnant, Lenoir, for plaintiff appellee.


RODMAN, Justice.

Contracts between public utilities and membership corporations containing provisions restricting the right of one of the contracting parties to provide service to applicants have fertilized the field, and controversy thrives. Ritt & Greene Electric Membership Corp. v. Light Co., 255 N.C. 258, 120 S.E.2d 749; Duke Power Co. v. Membership Corp., 253 N.C. 596

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