NISHNABOTNA VALLEY RURAL ELEC. COOP. v. IOWA P. & L. CO.

No. 52971.

161 N.W.2d 348 (1968)

NISHNABOTNA VALLEY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, Respondent-Appellant, and American Beef Packers, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant, v. IOWA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, Complainant-Appellee, and Iowa State Commerce Commission, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 17, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wisdom, Sullivan & Golden, Des Moines, and Hines & Sawin, Harlan, for respondent-appellant.

Cudahy & Wilcox, Jefferson, for intervenor-appellant.

Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, Des Moines, and Ross, Johnson, Stuart, Tinley & Peters, Council Bluffs, for complainant-appellee.

Leo Steffen, Des Moines, Thomas Bolton, West Des Moines, Daniel Fay, Cedar Rapids, and Susan Thomas, Des Moines, for appellee, Iowa State Commerce Commission.


BECKER, Justice.

This case involves competing suppliers of electric power. Each seeks to service a new packing plant constructed immediately north of the city of Oakland. The Iowa Power and Light Company filed a complaint with the Iowa Commerce Commission charging that Nishnabotna Valley Rural Electric Cooperative was violating the law in servicing the American Beef Packers, Inc. at its new location. Both companies are subject to regulation under Chapter 490A, Iowa...

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