I'm (marginally) involved in a commercial landlord-tenant that involves a restaurant. The local power-co has filed in court to have the sheriff seize the electric meter. Yes, somebody went to court over an electric meter. Case involves Schmitz. I'm stumped. My best guess is that it's a hotwired the smartmeter? Any better guesses?

I'm looking at a condo built in 1990 and was trying to figure out a little more how it was built. This is a "ground floor" unit which is basically a daylight basement as it is built in to the hillside. Only one side has windows; this side is all at/above grade. The unit sits on top of an all-concrete parking garage which is mostly underground. A couple parts have linoleum which feels really solid so I'm assuming this unit is built on a concrete slab (the roof of the garage). I popped off one of the outlet plate covers on a common wall to see what was inside the wall. It was hard to tell, but it looks like the outlet was mounted in a 2 gang metal box with a 1 gang adapter, such as the following: [ATTACH=CONFIG]29262[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]29263[/ATTACH] It was definitely a metal box inside. Much roomier than the standard 1 gang boxes. The drywall cutout was about the same as what you'd have for a plastic ox. Normally I'm used to seeing plastic 1 gang boxes nailed to a stud. I've never seen this before and am just curious as to what is going on here and what advantages there are to using metal boxes.