PIKE NATURAL GAS CO. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Nos. 81-191 and 81-635.

68 Ohio St. 2d 181 (1981)

PIKE NATURAL GAS COMPANY, APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE. COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO, INC., APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Gingher & Christensen and Mr. Robert H. Taylor, for appellant Pike Natural Gas Co.

Mr. Thomas E. Morgan, Mr. Roger C. Post and Mr. Thomas J. Brown, Jr., for appellant Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc.

Mr. William J. Brown, attorney general, Mr. Marvin I. Resnik and Mr. Harris S. Leven, for appellee.


Per Curiam.

The sole question before this court is the propriety of the commission's denials of the requested excise tax adjustment clauses.

Appellants argue that the commission's decisions are arbitrary, unreasonable and against the manifest weight of the evidence. These arguments are predicated upon a commission holding in a 1975 case which allowed the Dayton Power and Light Company to include an adjustment...

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