HOPE NATURAL GAS CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 4979.

134 F.2d 287 (1943)

HOPE NATURAL GAS CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted May 17, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Cockley, of Cleveland, Ohio (Walter J. Milde, Theodore R. Colborn, and William A. Dougherty, all of Cleveland, Ohio, and Kemble White and Anthony F. McCue, both of Clarksburg, W. Va., on the brief), for petitioner.

Milford Springer, for Federal Power Commission, of Washington, D. C., and Spencer W. Reeder, Asst. Director of Law in Charge of Utility Controversies for City of Cleveland, of Cleveland, Ohio (Charles V. Shannon, Louis W. McKernan, and Howell Purdue, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel for Federal Power Commission; Thomas A. Burke, Jr., Director of Law, of Cleveland, Ohio, for City of Cleveland; Robert E. May, of Washington, D. C., and Alexander W. Parker and Joseph M. Winston, Jr., both of Richmond, Va., Attys. for City of Cleveland; A. F. O'Neil, Director of Law, and Clyde B. Macdonald, Asst. Director of Law, both of Akron, Ohio, for City of Akron, Attys. for City of Akron; Claude T. Reno, Atty. Gen. of Pennsylvania, and Harry M. Showalter, Counsel, and Samuel Graff Miller, Asst. Counsel, both of Harrisburg, Pa. for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, on the brief), for respondents.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted May 17, 1943. See 63 S.Ct. 1165, 87 L.Ed. ___.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition by the Hope Natural Gas Company, hereafter referred to as "Hope", to review an order of the Federal Power Commission under the provisions of § 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act of June 21, 1938, 52 Stat. 831, 15 U.S.C.A. § 717r (b). Hope, a subsidiary corporation of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, was organized under the laws of...

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