GULF POWER COMPANY v. BEVIS

No. 43245.

289 So.2d 401 (1974)

GULF POWER COMPANY, a Corporation, Petitioner, v. William H. BEVIS et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bert Lane of Beggs, Lane, Daniel, Gaines & Davis, Pensacola, for petitioner.

Reubin O'D. Askew, Governor of Fla., and Arthur J. England, Jr., Consumer Advisor and Sp. Counsel to the Governor, and Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and W. Robert Olive, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for cross-petitioners.

Donald R. Alexander, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Robert R. Feagin III of Holland & Knight, Lakeland, for amicus curiae, Tampa Electric Co.

B. Kenneth Gatlin and Jack M. Skelding, Jr. of Madigan, Parker, Gatlin, Truett & Swedmark, Tallahassee, and Frank H. Bass, Jr., St. Petersburg, for amicus curiae, Fla. Power Corp.

Edwin L. Mason, of Mason & Erwin, Tallahassee, for amicus curiae, St. Joseph Telephone and Telegraph Co., and Gulf Telephone Co.


DEKLE, Justice.

This is a review in certiorari of orders of the Florida Public Service Commission. The first order, entered June 30, 1972, authorized an increase in petitioner's rates in order to allow a fair rate of return upon its properties and investment which is constitutionally required.1

Thereafter, the Governor of the State of Florida and the Attorney General of Florida (who had...

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