WESTVACO CORP. v. COLUMBIA GAS OF VA., INC.

Record No. 860715.

353 S.E.2d 780 (1987)

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

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Flippen (Bruce V. Thomas; Mays & Valentine, Richmond, on briefs), for appellant.

Stephen H. Watts, II; Robert M. Gillespie (Thomas E. Morgan; Allan E. Roth; Andrew J. Sonderman; Lewis S. Minter; McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, on briefs), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

This appeal from an order of the State Corporation Commission presents a narrow procedural question: whether the Commission, in an expedited rate case, may properly exclude evidence concerning rate design.

Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc., sells natural gas at retail and also transmits gas by pipeline in Virginia as a common carrier for others. Westvaco Corporation was originally a large retail customer for Columbia, but in 1983 began to purchase...

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