Electricity Bills Information

A while back in 2007 an energy company called Universal Gas and Electric called my house and spoke to my mom about making them our energy provider. My mom doesn’t speak English so she had my 16 year old brother talk to them and for some reason he switched to them, the bill was in my mom’s name. About a year and half later we switched the bill to my name so that it might increase my credit score. Now we recently moved and cancelled with them (Universal) and they claim that I owe them a $250 cancellation fee because we had a 5 year contract. I was never made aware of a contract and neither was my mom or little brother and had I known that it was a 5 year contract I wouldn’t have switched the bill over into my name. They have sent it into collections. What should I do? I feel like I have been scammed and they don’t deserve the money and I never signed into a 5 year contract, neither verbally nor in writing. What would you do if you were in my position?
I have tried everything, they are not backing out and said that they are willing to go to court over it. It is already in collections and the company that they contracted to do their collections is trying to obtain a judgment against me.

You can’t enter into a contract until you’re 18. Even if you were 18, your brother wasn’t when the contract was formed. I would call them and tell them this fact makes the contract void, see if they back out.