[1 On July 26, 1996, the trial court granted the motion of the appellee, Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (ONG), to strike as moot the motion of the appellants, Margaret B. Fent and Jerry R. Fent (Fents) to certify this suit as a class action. In addition, the trial court found that the Fents' motion to certify this matter as a class action should be denied. The Court of Civil Appeals, Division 2, 1 affirmed the trial court's interlocutory order. This Court has previously granted certiorari.
T2 This is the third appeal by the Fents in their lawsuit against ONG. In 1988, the *478 Fents, husband and wife, as landowners and customers of ONG, a public utility, brought an individual and class action on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated customers of ONG. The controversy began when the Fents had reported to ONG that gas was leaking in the pipeline in their back yard. ONG denied ownership and responsibility for the pipeline, which ran from its easement behind the Fents' property, through the Fents' back yard to ONG's gas meter located in the basement of the Fents' home. ONG disconnected the gas service, removed the properly operating gas meter from the Fents' basement, leaving a ten-inch gap in the pipeline where the old meter was removed, and refused to repair or replace the yard line 2 where the gas had been leaking. Before ONG would restore gas service, ONG required that the Fents repair the gap in their basement, and install another yard line to connect to a new meter that ONG installed in the Fents' back yard utility easement. The Fents made the required repairs and then filed this individual and class-action suit 3 against the utility company. The Fents claim that there are 140,202 total ONG gas meters on private property, all having a yard line and ten-inch gap to be repaired when ONG pulls its gas meter for relocation. The Fents seek the following relief in their lawsuit: injunctive and declaratory relief, damages for repair of the ten-inch gap left when ONG pulls a meter off private property, and damages for repair and replacement of yard lines.
I.. FENT I
T3 Before the issue of whether the class should be certified was litigated, ONG moved to dismiss, arguing that the district court had no subject matter jurisdiction and the Fents failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The district court granted ONG's motion to dismiss. The Court of Civil Appeals, Division III, reversed, and this Court denied ONG's petition for certiorari. The Court of Civil Appeals reiterated that the Corporation Commission is not a court of general jurisdiction and cannot enter a money judgment against any party. Fent v. Oklahoma Natural Gas,
H.. FENT II
14 On remand, but before the merits of the case were decided, ONG filed an application with the Corporation Commission re
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questing an interpretation of the applicable rule and an order that ONG customers are responsible for installing, replacing and maintaining pipeline from ONG's easement to the customers' point of consumption, regardless of the meter's location. The Fents, who were parties to the agency proceeding, objected. They asserted that their dispute with the utility had been resolved by Font I, and the Corporation Commission lacked power to decide the issues placed in controversy. Fent v. Oklahoma Natural Gas,
15 This Court held that ONG's attempt to bring the issues settled in Fent I before the Corporation Commission was an impermissible collateral attack barred from agency re-litigation by the doctrine of issue preclusion. Fent II,
T6 However, Fent I did decide the threshold question of which party is responsible for the pipeline access across ONG's easement to the Fents' residence. The Court of Civil Appeals held: "Pursuant to Rule 62, ONG was clearly responsible for the maintenance of the gas pipeline from its easement to the output side of the pipeline coming from the meter in the Appellants' basement." Fent I,
III. JENKS
T7 After the Fent II decision, ONG alleged that it received several customer requests for reimbursement for costs the customers incurred in repairing or replacing their yard lines. On September 7, 1995, ONG filed a new application to the Corporation Commission for a determination of its financial responsibility, if any, for installation, maintenance, repair and replacement of yard lines of its customers. It claimed an uncertainty existed as a consequence of Fent I, and Fent II. The application exeluded the Fents, and sought this ruling to determine ONG's responsibilities to all other customers having yard lines.
T8 The Fents and Harold Jenks filed pleadings including a Motion to Continue the hearing on the merits, which the Corporation Commission granted. They then filed an Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and a Petition for Writ of Prohibition in this Court, asking that the Commission be prohibited from proceeding in the cause for lack of jurisdiction. As authority, they cited Fent I and Fent II. They also requested that the Commission proceedings be stayed pending the decision on their application and petition. Although the Court had granted the temporary stay, it denied the Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction, and the stay was lifted. Jenks v. Oklahoma Natural Gas, Case No. 87,666, slip op. at 6 (OK CIV APP, Div. III, Nov. 17, 1997).
*480 19 ONG presented testimony regarding the Commission's Rules that since 1922 the customer had always been responsible for the yard line, regardless of the location of the meter. The Commission's staff conceded that ONG had operated under such interpretation of the Rules since 1922. ONG asked the Commission to reaffirm its interpretation of its Rules governing yard lines it had consistently maintained since at least 1922, except as it relates to the Fents. Jenks, slip op. at 7. In Order No. 402102, the Commission found that it had jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties, and that according to the Rules of the Commission, with the exception of the Fents, the customer was financially responsible for the installation, maintenance, repair or replacement of yard lines, regardless of meter location. The Commission specifically found that Rule 6(a) did not control the financial responsibility for the repair or replacement of yard lines, and that such responsibility could only be determined by the application of all relevant rules, specifically Rules 6, 7 and 8. Jenks, slip op. at 8.
1 10 On appeal, the Court of Civil Appeals, Division III, concluded that ONG was, in effect, attempting to secure an order from the Commission exempting it from liability on future, unknown claims. The court observed that the Commission has rule-making authority, but that this issue was not a rule-making matter. The court held that the Commission order must fall because it was an attempt to prejudge future disputes. The court, on November 17, 1997, reversed the Commission's order. Jenks, slip op. at 9-10. ONG and the Corporation Commission filed petitions for certiorari, which were denied.
IV. FENT HI
1 11 As noted above, the trial court denied the Fents' motion to certify the class on July 26, 1996, which was over a year before the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the Corporation Commission's order in Jenks. The trial court's order was filed on September 9, 1996, and the Petition in Error was filed on October 1, 1996. From the Answer Brief of ONG, filed November 26, 1996, it is clear that the basis of the argument against a class certification was that the Corporation Commission specifically excluded the Fents from Order No. 402102. ONG's Answer Brief of November 25, 1996, states that its Motion to Strike the Fents' Motion for Class Certification was based on the grounds that there was not a class of customers whom the Fents could represent, because the Fents' claim is not "typical" and "common questions" of law and fact cannot "predominate." ONG argues that there are no other ONG customers who are similarly situated. An examination of the original record reveals that on the basis of this argument, the trial court made its findings and order striking as moot the Fents' motion for class certification. In addition, the court denied that motion. We do not believe that the trial court intended the latter act to be redundant.
V. STANDARD OF REVIEW
112 An appellate court will reverse a trial court's order denying class certification only where the appellant demonstrates a clear showing of abuse of discretion. Mattoon v. City of Norman,
VI. REQUEST FOR INJUNCTIVE OR DECLARATORY RELIEF
113 In assessing the correctness of the general order of the trial court denying the Fents' motion for certification of a class action, we shall take as true all the uncontro-verted allegations of the instruments in the record and the undenied statements of counsel in the briefs. Mattoon,
T 14 On March 9, 1999, this Court permitted the parties to submit additional arguments and authorities. In the Fents' brief filed April 2, 1999, the Fents note that they requested injunctive relief pursuant to 12 ©.S.1991, § 2023(B)(2), which provides, "The party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final in-junctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole...." The Fents argue from their amended petition that ONG must be restrained and enjoined from taking future action with its gas meters and pipelines located upon private property that would damage the property. They claim that there are at least 140,202 prospective class members who are entitled to injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief.
T15 However, the Fents' claim is not typical of those claims these other ONG customers may have. Unlike these potential litigants, the Fents have a matured claim because their gas meter has been removed and they have repaired their yard line. Their rights have been adjudicated because they have the holding of the Court of Civil Appeals that ONG clearly was responsible for the maintenance of the gas
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pipeline from its easement to the output side of the pipeline coming from the meter in the Fents' basement. Fent I,
VII. FENTS' MOTION TO CONSIDER PUBLIC ADMISSIONS AGAINST INTEREST
116 The Fents claim that ONG has appeared before the Corporation Commission in a third attempt to cireumvent the appellate court decisions in this case. They submit that ONG has made a third party public admission against interest during that hearing that may be used against ONG on the issues of typicality of a yard line class existence, and ONG's liability to all the class members. ONG answers that in connection with a rate proceeding currently pending before the Commission, ONG requested a waiver from the Commission rules to allow ONG to gradually assume responsibility for, and ownership of, customer yard lines. The request was made in the context of a rate proceeding due to the high cost associated with the proposal. ONG asserts that on May 30, 2000, the Commission granted ON@G's request for a waiver from the rules.
117 We answer that whether or not this attempt to take responsibility for customers' yard lines constitutes an admission that is admissible before this Court, such an admission would provide no help to the Fents' on their motion to certify such a broad class, as we have previously discussed. The motion is denied.
118 - CERTIORARI - PREVIOUSLY GRANTED; OPINION OF THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS VACATED; ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COURT SUSTAINED. APPELLANTS EVIDENTIARY MOTION IS DENIED.
Notes
. In 1996 the legislature changed the name of the Court of Appeals to the Court of Civil Appeals. 1996 Okla.Sess.Laws, ch. 97. For purposes of consistency in this opinion, that court shall be referred to by its new designation, even though some of its opinions referred to in the text predate the amendment.
. A yard line is a pipe that runs from ONG's service line on an easement or from a curb line, to the customer's residence.
. The Fents requested certification of a class consisting of: "All private persons being served by the defendant OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS COMPANY ('ONG'), who have an ONG gas meter located upon their private property (while outside public easements or public dedication) when ONG transports its gas through 'yard lines' to ONG gas meters for sale of ONG owned gas, and where these private persons have in the past, present or the future had (or will have) ONG gas meter [sic] relocated off their private property without ONG paying removal, relocation, repair or abandonment costs or damages."
. The rule as quoted in the opinion provides: "Each utility shall operate and maintain in safe, efficient and proper condition all of its facilities and instrumentalities used in connection with the transmission, distribution, storage, regulation, measurement and delivery of gas to each consumer up to and including the point of delivery into the piping owned by the consumer. Unless otherwise agreed by the utility and the customer, the point of delivery shall be at the outflow side of the meter." Fent I,
. Title 12 0.$.1991, § 2023(A) provides:
"PREREQUISITES TO A CLASS ACTION. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if:
"1. The class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable;
"2. There are questions of law or fact common to the class;
"3. The claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and
"4. The representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class."
. Title 12 0.$.1991, § 2023(B) provides:
"CLASS ACTIONS MAINTAINABLE. An action may be maintained as a class action if the prerequisites of subsection A of this section are satisfied and in addition:
1. The prosecution of separate actions by or against individual members of the class would create a risk of:
"a. inconsistent or varying adjudications with respect to individual members of the class which would establish incompatible standards of conduct for the party opposing the class, or
"b. adjudications with respect to individual members of the class which would as a practical matter be dispositive of the interests of the other members not parties to the adjudications or substantially impair or impede their ability to protect their interests; or
"2. The party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final in-junctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole; or
"3. The court finds that the questions of law or fact common to the members of the class predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superi- or to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy. The matters pertinent to the findings include:
"a. the interest of members of the class in individually controlling the prosecution or defense of separate actions,
"b. the extent and nature of any litigation concerning the controversy already commenced by or against members of the class,
"c. the desirability or undesirability of concentrating the Iftigation of the claims in the particular forum, and
"d. the difficulties likely to be encountered in the management of a class action."