FLORIDA POWER CORP. v. ZENITH INDUSTRIES CO.

No. 78-2049.

377 So.2d 203 (1979)

FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. ZENITH INDUSTRIES COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Individually and As Representative of a Class and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Broaddus Livingston and Sylvia Walbolt of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa and S.A. Brandimore and R.W. Neiser, Office of the General Counsel for Florida Power, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Elihu H. Berman of MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Clearwater, and Joseph P. McNulty of McNulty, Mortiz & Dickey, Largo, for appellees.


OTT, Judge.

This suit is a by-product of the so-called "Daisy Chain Scandal" in which Florida Power allegedly paid artificially inflated prices for fuel oil and passed such increased costs on to its customers in the form of increased rates for electrical power. Zenith, claiming to be one of those customers, sought refund of all such overcharges, together with unspecified general, special and exemplary damages sustained by it as a result of Florida Power's violation...

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