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POWER COMM'N v. HOPE GAS CO.

No. 34.

320 U.S. 591 (1944)

FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ET AL. v. HOPE NATURAL GAS CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Shea, with whom Solicitor General Fahy and Messrs. Paul A. Freund, K. Norman Diamond, Melvin Richter, Charles V. Shannon, Milford Springer, A.F. O'Neil, Clyde B. MacDonald, Harold A. Scragg, and Samuel Graff Miller were on the brief, for petitioners in No. 34; and Mr. Spencer W. Reeder, with whom Messrs. Robert E. May and Robert M. Morgan were on the brief, for petitioner in No. 35.

Mr. William B. Cockley, with whom Messrs. Walter J. Milde and William A. Dougherty were on the brief, for respondent.

By Special leave of Court, Mr. M.M. Neely, Governor of West Virginia, with whom Messrs. Ira J. Partlow, Assistant Attorney General, and W.W. Goldsmith were on the brief, for the State of West Virginia, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Mr. Gay H. Brown, on behalf of the Public Service Commission of New York, and Messrs. John E. Benton and Frederick G. Hamley, on behalf of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, in No. 34, urging reversal; and by Messrs. Donald C. McCreery and Robert D. Garver, on behalf of the Cities Service Gas Co., in Nos. 34 and 35, urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The primary issue in these cases concerns the validity under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 821, 15 U.S.C. § 717) of a rate order issued by the Federal Power Commission reducing the rates chargeable by Hope Natural Gas Co., 44 P.U.R. (N.S.) 1. On a petition for review of the order made pursuant to § 19 (b) of the Act, the Circuit Court of Appeals set...

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