PUBLIC UTILITIES COMM. v. LANDON

Nos. 277, 329, 330, 353.

249 U.S. 236 (1919)

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION FOR THE STATE OF KANSAS ET AL. v. LANDON, RECEIVER OF THE KANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY, ET AL. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ET AL. v. LANDON, RECEIVER OF THE KANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY, ET AL. KANSAS CITY GAS COMPANY ET AL. v. KANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY ET AL. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION FOR THE STATE OF KANSAS ET AL. v. LANDON, RECEIVER OF THE KANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 17, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. F.S. Jackson for Public Utilities Commission for the State of Kansas et al.

Mr. Robert Stone and Mr. Chester I. Long, with whom Mr. John H. Atwood, Mr. George T. McDermott, Mr. Austin M. Cowan, Mr. R.A. Brown, Mr. T.S. Salathiel and Mr. John J. Jones were on the briefs, for Landon, Receiver; Kansas Natural Gas Co.; and Sharitt, Receiver:1

Mr. James D. Lindsay, with whom Mr. Frank W. McAllister, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Mr. W.G. Busby and Mr. A.Z. Patterson were on the brief, for Public Service Commission of Missouri.

Mr. A.F. Smith, with whom Mr. E.M. Harber, Mr. Benj. M. Powers, Mr. Ray Bond and Mr. Chas. L. Faust were on the briefs, for Kansas City, Joplin and St. Joseph, Missouri.

Mr. Charles Blood Smith for Fidelity Title & Trust Co.

Mr. J.W. Dana for Kansas City Gas Co. et al.

Mr. Leonard S. Ferry, Mr. Thomas F. Doran, Mr. M.F. Cosgrove, Mr. J.M. Challis and Mr. Floyd Harper filed a brief on behalf of various distributing companies.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

These are appeals by different groups of defendants below from decrees prohibiting public commissions and officers of Kansas and Missouri, certain municipalities and many local gas distributing companies from interfering with establishment and maintenance of selling rates for gas to consumers sufficiently high to compensate receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company...

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