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EVERETT v. BALTIMORE GAS & ELEC.

No. 56, September Term, 1985.

307 Md. 286 (1986)

513 A.2d 882

JANICE EVERETT v. BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. McCaig, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Baltimore, for Janice Everett, appellant.

Paul S. Buckley, Asst. People's Counsel (John K. Keane, Jr., Maryland People's Counsel, Thomas C. Gorak, Asst. People's Counsel), Baltimore, brief of amicus curiae Maryland People's Counsel.

Gregory V. Carmean, Acting People's Counsel, Thomas C. Gorak, Asst. People's Counsel and Paul S. Buckley, Asst. People's Counsel, Baltimore, reply brief of amicus curiae filed by Maryland People's Counsel.

Stephen J. Rosasco (Paul W. Davis, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee Baltimore Gas and Elec. Co.

Sandra Hall-Eckroade, Asst. General Counsel (Kirk J. Emge, General Counsel, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee Public Service Com'n of Maryland.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.

COLE, Judge.

We shall decide in this case whether a utility company may terminate a customer's service because the customer failed to pay for service at a prior address where she allegedly resided. We shall also decide whether the utility company or the customer bears the burden of proof in a service termination proceeding. Finally, we must determine the standard of proof that applies in the service termination proceeding at issue.

We set forth the facts giving...

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