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STATE COMM'N v. WICHITA GAS CO.

No. 114.

290 U.S. 561 (1934)

STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF KANSAS ET AL. v. WICHITA GAS CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 8, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. E.H. Hatcher and Charles D. Welch, with whom Mr. Roland Boynton, Attorney General of Kansas, and Messrs. Louis R. Gates and Charles W. Steiger were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Robert D. Garver, with whom Mr. Robert Stone was on the brief, for appellees other than Cities Service Gas Co.

Mr. James W. Finley, with whom Mr. R.E. Cullison was on the brief, for Cities Service Gas Co., appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Ten suits were consolidated for trial.1 The appellee in each of the first nine is a local public service corporation, for convenience called a distributing company, engaged in the business of furnishing natural gas to consumers, domestic and industrial, in Kansas, and together they operate in 128 cities and towns. The other appellee, Cities...

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