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Manila Electric Company vs Macro Textile Mills Corporation

MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY, petitioner, vs. MACRO TEXTILE MILLS CORPORATION, respondent.

G.R. No. 126243 | 2002-01-18

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

The Case

This is a petition for review on certiorari assailing the propriety of the imposition of differential billings on respondent Macro Textile Mills Corporation (MACRO) for unregistered consumption of electricity resulting from the tampering of Meralco's electric meter.[1]

MACRO is MERALCO'S general power customer under billing account number 9400-822-19, covered by a service contract.

On October 3, 1986, MACRO filed with the Regional Trial Court, Quezon City, Branch 86[2] a complaint for injunction with an application for a restraining order against MERALCO to restrain MERALCO from cutting MACRO'S electric...