STATE EX REL. PITTMAN v. PUB. SERV. COM'N

Nos. 57104, 57123.

520 So.2d 1355 (1987)

STATE of Mississippi, ex rel. Edwin Lloyd PITTMAN, Attorney General, and Mississippi Legal Services Coalition, and Southeast Mississippi Legal Services Corp. v. MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION and Mississippi Power Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Frank Spencer and W. Glenn Watts, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Jeremy Eisler and John Jopling, Hattiesburg, for appellants.

James S. Eaton and Ben H. Stone, Eaton, Cottrell, Galloway, Lang & Stone, Gulfport, Richard W. Wise and Dennis W. Miller, Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

In September, 1985, the Mississippi Power Company (the Company) interrupted service to twenty-three (23) counties in Southeast Mississippi when Hurricane "Elena" converged on the Gulf Coast area. On October 28, 1985, the Company filed with the Public Service Commission (the Commission) a "notice of change in rates" rather than "a notice of intent to change rates" because, contends the Company, its filing of $16,063,986.00 did not...

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