CAMBRIDGE ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. v. DEPT. OF PUB. UTIL.


363 Mass. 474 (1973)

295 N.E.2d 876

CAMBRIDGE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY & others vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 23, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin J. Carr (Marshall S. Davis & William C. Hardy With him) for Cambridge Electric Light Company & others; Richard L. Morningstar, for Western Massachusetts Electric Company, also with him.

Phillip H.R. Cahill for Massachusetts Electric Company & others.

Andrew M. Wolfe, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Public Utilities.

John Bowman for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute & another, interveners.

John J. Desmond, III, for Boston Edison Company, and Joseph P. Rooney & Robert D. Canty, for Brockton Edison Company & another, joined in a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, HENNESSEY, & KAPLAN, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The petitioners, eighteen gas or electric utility corporations within the jurisdiction of the respondent Department of Public Utilities (department), seek to annul certain regulations dealing with billing of customers and termination of service approved and promulgated by the department after public hearings. The petitioners have made their challenge in the form of several petitions for appeal in the county court...

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