PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE L. CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

No. 12466.

179 F.2d 896 (1949)

PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE CO. et al. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION et al.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Concurring Opinion March 4, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Patterson, New York City (John S. L. Yost, New York City and Mr. Samuel H. Riggs, Detroit, Mich., were with him on the brief), for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company.

Irving B. Feldman, Assistant Attorney General and Deputy State Public Administrator of the State of Michigan, and Raymond J. Kelly, Corporation Counsel for the City of Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, Mich. (Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, Graydon G. Withey, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Michigan, and D'Arcy O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General and State Public Administrator of the State of Michigan, were with them on the brief), for the State of Michigan.

Clyde H. Jones, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Indiana, (J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General of the State of Indiana, was with him on the brief), for the State of Indiana.

J. E. Taylor, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, and Harry H. Kay, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Missouri, filed brief for the State of Missouri.

Lambert McAllister, Special Counsel, Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C. (John F. Sonnett, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Bradford Ross, General Counsel, Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., J. Francis Hayden, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, William Jordan, Jr., Attorney, Department of Justice, Charles E. McGee, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Power Commission, and William S. Tarver, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., were with him on the brief), for the Federal Power Commission and the United States.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and SANBORN, WOODROUGH, THOMAS, JOHNSEN, RIDDICK, and COLLET, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The question for decision is whether the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company (which will be referred to as "Panhandle") is equitably entitled to be reimbursed, out of the undistributed residue of an impounded fund, for the expenses which Panhandle has paid, at the direction of the Court, in connection with the distribution of the fund to the ultimate consumers (in seven states) of natural gas sold during the impoundment period by Panhandle...

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