STATE EX REL. UTIL. COM'N v. MOUNTAIN ELEC. COOPERATIVE, INC.

No. 9110UC713.

423 S.E.2d 516 (1992)

108 N.C. App. 283

In the Matter of STATE of North Carolina ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION, and Solomon Horney, Appellees, v. MOUNTAIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., and North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Com'n by Chief Counsel Antoinette R. Wike and Staff Atty. A.W. Turner, Jr., Raleigh, for complainant-appellee.

Crisp, Davis, Schwentker, Page & Currin by Robert B. Schwentker, Raleigh, for respondent-appellant Mountain Elec. Co-op., Inc.

Associate Gen. Counsel Thomas K. Austin, Raleigh, for respondent-appellant North Carolina Elec. Membership Corp.


PARKER, Judge.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the North Carolina Utilities Commission ("the Commission") lacked jurisdiction over a dispute arising from the proposed siting of an electrical transmission line. We conclude the Commission possessed statutory authority to hear and resolve the dispute and thus affirm the result below.

This proceeding was commenced by a 14 February 1990 letter to the chairman of the Commission from complainant...

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