PANHANDLE CO. v. POWER COMM'N.

No. 296.

324 U.S. 635 (1945)

PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE CO. ET AL. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 2, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Ira Lloyd Letts and John S.L. Yost, with whom Messrs. D.H. Culton and Samuel H. Riggs were on the brief, for petitioners.

Messrs. Chester T. Lane and Charles V. Shannon, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Shea, Messrs. Paul A. Sweeney, Harry S. Littman, Stanley M. Morley, William E. Dowling, James H. Lee, Harold Goodman, Herbert J. Rushton, Attorney General, and James W. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, of Michigan, were on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. (whom we will call Panhandle Eastern) owns properties which constitute a natural gas production, transportation, and marketing system.1 The system extends from gas fields in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and into Michigan.2 The City of Detroit...

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