City of Anchorage, a Corporation v. Richardson Vista Corporation and Panoramic View Corporation

This case comes to us on appeal from Alaska, and concerns the proper application by the City of Anchorage of its electric power rate schedules to certain apartment houses owned and operated by the plaintiffs in the City of Anchorage. The District Court upheld the contentions of plaintiffs that the City had erroneously applied its schedule of rates. From this judgment the City appeals.

Richardson Vista Corporation and Panoramic View Corporation, hereinafter referred to as “Vista” and “Panoramic” are two housing corporations owning and operating multiple apartment buildings in Anchorage, Alaska. Vista owned nineteen separate apartment buildings with twenty-two units in each, for a total of four hundred eighteen separate apartments, the project being situate on a twenty-three acre tract of land. Panoramic owned and operated fourteen separate apartment buildings over a seventeen acre tract, with twenty-two, sixteen and twelve units per building, with a total of two hundred sixty-four apartments. Electric energy was furnished to these apartment house buildings by the City of Anchorage, a municipal corporation, engaged in the proprietary business of operating an electrical power…