PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. OKLAHOMA.

No. 73.

340 U.S. 190 (1950)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. OKLAHOMA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Emery and R. M. Williams argued the cause for appellant. With them on the brief were Rayburn L. Foster and Harry D. Turner.

T. Murray Robinson argued the cause for the State of Oklahoma, Floyd Green for the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, and D. A. Richardson for the Peerless Oil & Gas Co., appellees. With them on the brief were Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General, and Fred Hansen, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Oklahoma, and Thomas J. Lee and Richard H. Dunn for the Commissioners of the Land Office of Oklahoma.


MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a companion case to Cities Service Gas Co. v. Peerless Oil & Gas Co., 340 U.S. 179, decided this date. Appellant is a producer in the Guymon-Hugoton Field, owning leases on approximately 183,000 acres, but unlike Cities Service it does not purchase from other producers in this field. It has its own gathering system...

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