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APPALACHIAN POWER v. GREATER LYNCHBURG TR.

Record No. 860020.

374 S.E.2d 10 (1988)

APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY v. GREATER LYNCHBURG TRANSIT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Walker, Jr. (H. Allen Glover, Jr., Roanoke, William Rosenberger, Jr., Lynchburg, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, on brief), for appellant.

David T. Petty, Jr. (Betsy H. Phillips, Kizer, Phillips & Petty, Lynchburg, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, and THOMAS, JJ., and GORDON, Retired Justice.

POFF, Justice.

As stated by the parties to this appeal, the principal question before us is whether the trial court erred in ruling that a stock corporation wholly owned by a city is a city "installation" within the meaning of a contract between the city and an electric utility.

In a letter dated August 16, 1966, addressed to "City of Lynchburg" (the City), Appalachian Power Company (Apco) submitted a bid for a thirty-year electric franchise. Apco agreed that...

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