MICHIGAN CONSOL. GAS CO. v. PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE L. CO.

No. 10834.

173 F.2d 784 (1949)

MICHIGAN CONSOL. GAS CO. v. PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

April 7, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Meek, and C. G. Dyer, both of Detroit, Mich. (Clifton G. Dyer, Walter M. Meek, Dyer, Angell, Meek & Batten, and Henry A. Montgonery, all of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellant.

Robert P. Patterson, of New York City, William S. Dowling, of Detroit, Mich. and William S. Tarver, of Washington, D. C. (William E. Dowling, of Detroit, Mich., Robert P. Patterson and John S. L. Yost, both of New York City, and Harry S. Littman, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Bradford Ross, William S. Tarver, Louis W. McKernan and Kenneth W. Wagner, all of Washington, D. C., for Federal Power Commission.

Before SIMONS, ALLEN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The controversy involves the jurisdiction of the district court to entertain a suit for the specific performance of a contract between a pipe-line company and a distributor in view of broad regulatory powers conferred upon the Federal Power Commission under the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S. C.A. § 717 et seq. The Federal Power Commission, various gas companies, public service commissions and others, intervened as defendants and moved for a dismissal...

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