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growth projection of 35 percent, Rappahannock customers of PotEd will require 10,000 kilowatts in the year 2O0O, Konick said. With the upgraded 138 KV line, the power company will be able to provide 110,000 kilowatts in 1983, an increase of 1,115 percent, the attorney said. Comparing the 1,115 percent increase in electrical production with the top limit projected growth rate of 35 percent, Konick described as “incredible” PotEd’s contention that the 138 upgraded KV line is “the answer to Rappahannock County’s electrical demands in the near future.”
If the Cameron’s case against the power company is going to be settled on more than just what is written in the 1928 right-of-way agreement, Konick said he wanted to bring evidence on the possibility that PotEd may have used the cost of acquiring additional rightof-way for the Luray to Sperryville project as justification for the utility’s latest rate increase. (According to the attorney, there’s been no significant purchase for the project.)
Konick told the judge that the right-of-way granted in 1928 by Charles Estes to Page Power Company, the predecessor of PotEd, used the terminology “as the line is located and staked.” He stressed that it refers to transmission line in the singular not just as it was located in 1928 but as it was located and staked at that time.
Noting that all the rightof-way agreements on file for the 1928 construction use the exact same wording, Konick concluded that the utility company wrote the documents. As a principle of law, he said, when a question of interpretation rises over a granting document, it
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