Court Opinion

ID: 9759908
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:32:27.704035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:06.066254
License: Public Domain

MONTGOMERY, Judge
(dissenting).
This Court has considered and reconsidered the principle first set forth in the Olive Hill case as shown by the cases cited in the majority opinion. The General Assembly has met in several regular and extra sessions since the original decision in 1947 without taking any legislative action to change the rule of law thus established. A bill to change the rule was unsuccessful in passage at one session. It has thus become firmly established in the body of our law.
The doctrine of the Olive Hill case is sound, in that it affords the only protection to the extraterritorial customers of a city-owned utility against unfair rates and faulty service. Therefore, I feel that it is unwise in the absence of legislative action to abrogate this rule; hence, this dissent.
BIRD, C. J., joins with me.