HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORP. v. SECURITIES AND EXCH. COM'N

No. 4389.

100 F.2d 5 (1938)

HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORPORATION v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 10, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Singley and Frederick J. Singley, Jr., both of Baltimore, Md. (Hinkley, Burger & Singley, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for petitioner.

Chester T. Lane, Gen. Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, of Washington, D. C. (Gerhard A. Gesell, David Ginsburg, and Maurice C. Kaplan, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before NORTHCOTT and SOPER, Circuit Judges, and CHESNUT, District Judge.


NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition of the Houston Natural Gas Corporation, a Delaware corporation with its principal office and place of business in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, to review an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The order complained of denied the petitioner an exemption from the provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 49 Stat. 838, 15 U.S.C.A. § 79 et seq. The petition for exemption was first filed...

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