MATTER OF SLAUGHTER BEACH WATER CO.


427 A.2d 893 (1981)

In the Matter of Application of SLAUGHTER BEACH WATER COMPANY for a General Increase In Rates, Filed April 3, 1979.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided March 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Terence Jaywork (argued) of Hudson, Jones & Jaywork, Dover, for appellant Town of Slaughter Beach.

James D. Griffin (argued) of Griffin & Hackett, P. A., Georgetown, for appellee Slaughter Beach Water Co.

George C. Hering, III (argued) and P. Clarkson Collins, Jr., of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for appellee Public Service Commission.

Before DUFFY, McNEILLY and HORSEY, JJ.


HORSEY, Justice:

Intervenor, the Town of Slaughter Beach (the Town), appeals Superior Court's affirmance of the Public Service Commission's (Commission) award of a rate increase to Slaughter Beach Water Company (water company), a public utility privately owned and operated by Frank and Marilyn Draper.

Reversal is sought on two grounds: (1) that the Town, not the Commission, has jurisdiction over the water company...

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