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PIPE LINE CO. v. U.S.

No. 268.

312 U.S. 502 (1941)

MISSOURI-KANSAS PIPE LINE CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Arthur G. Logan and Robert J. Bulkley, with whom Mr. Russell Hardy was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Douglas M. Moffat, with whom Mr. Clarence A. Southerland was on the brief, for the Columbia Gas & Electric Corp.; and Mr. William H. Button, with whom Messrs. Daniel O. Hastings and James B. Alley were on the brief, for the Columbia Oil & Gas Corp., appellees. Attorney General Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Arnold submitted for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

These proceedings grow out of a suit in equity brought by the Attorney General in 1935 to enforce the antitrust laws. That suit was terminated by a consent decree the terms of which specifically reserved certain rights to the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company. The issues here revolve around the scope of those provisions of the decree.

In its bill the Government...

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