WESTVACO CORP. v. COLUMBIA GAS OF VIRGINIA

Record No. 850579.

339 S.E.2d 170 (1986)

WESTVACO CORPORATION v. COLUMBIA GAS OF VIRGINIA, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Flippen (Donald G. Owens, John J. Carrara, Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

Deborah Vinson Ellenberg, Stephen H. Watts, II (Lewis S. Minter, Stewart E. Farrar, Richmond, Thomas E. Morgan, Allan E. Roth, Columbus, Ohio, McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, on briefs), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal of right from an order of the State Corporation Commission granting Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc., a rate increase. The central question on appeal is whether the Commission erred in permitting Columbia to allocate the increase among its several classes of customers by the use of a uniform surcharge, rather than an equal percentage. Finding no error in the Commission's action, we...

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