STATE EX REL. UTIL. COM'N v. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & P. CO.

No. 7410UC140.

203 S.E.2d 418 (1974)

21 N.C. App. 45

STATE of North Carolina ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION et al., Appellees, v. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, and the Municipalities of Roanoke Rapids, Ahoskie, Plymouth, Rich Square, Roper and Weldon, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joyner & Howison by Robert C. Howison, Jr., Raleigh, and Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson by Evans B. Brasfield, Guy T. Tripp, III, and Allen C. Barringer, Richmond, Va., for Va. Electric and Power Co., appellants.

Crisp, Bolch & Smith by William T. Crisp, Raleigh, and Nicholas Long, Roanoke Rapids, attorneys for appellants cities of Ahoskie, Plymouth, Rich Square, Roanoke Rapids, Roper and Weldon.

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan by I. Beverly Lake, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Robert P. Gruber and Jerry J. Rutledge, Associate Attys., Raleigh, for the Using and Consuming Public, appellees.

Fountain & Goodwyn by George A. Goodwyn, Tarboro, for Northeastern Cotton Ginners Ass'n, appellee.

Edward B. Hipp, Maurice W. Horne and Jerry B. Fruitt, Raleigh, for N. C. Utilities Commission, appellee.


BRITT, Judge.

This being an appeal to review a decision of the North Carolina Utilities Commission in a general rate making case, any aggrieved party, as a matter of right, may appeal from the decision of this court to the State Supreme Court. G.S. § 7A-30(3). Under Article IV of our State Constitution, the appellate jurisdiction of our Supreme Court relates solely to appeals from decisions of "the courts below"; the Utilities Commission being an administrative...

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