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KANSAS-NEBRASKA NATURAL GAS CO. v. STATE CORP. COMM.

Nos. 37,921, 37,920, 37,924

169 Kan. 722 (1950)

222 P.2d 704

KANSAS-NEBRASKA NATURAL GAS COMPANY, INC., a Corporation, Appellant, v. STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, JEFF A. ROBERTSON, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWITT M. STILES, Commissioner, and CHARLES M. WARREN, Commissioner, as members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and their respective successors in office, Appellees. NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS and JEFF A. ROBERTSON, Chairman, DeWITT M. STILES, Member, CHARLES M. WARREN, Member of said Commission, and their successors in office, Appellees. PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, JEFF A. ROBERTSON, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWITT M. STILES, Commissioner, and CHARLES M. WARREN, Commissioner, as members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and their respective successors in office, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed October 7, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.F. Cosgrove, of Topeka, argued the cause, and James D. Conway, of Hastings, Neb., and D.B. Lang, of Scott City, were with him on the briefs for the appellant Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc.

Mark H. Adams, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Lawrence I. Shaw, of Omaha, Neb., and A.M. Fleming, of Garden City, were with him on the briefs for the appellant Northern Natural Gas Company.

Louis R. Gates, of Kansas City, argued the cause, and Mark H. Adams, of Wichita, and Edw. H. Lange, of Kansas City, Mo., were with him on the briefs for the appellant Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company.

Jay Kyle, general counsel, State Corporation Commission, of Topeka; R.C. Woodward, special counsel, of El Dorado, and Howard T. Fleeson and Dale M. Stucky, both of Wichita, of counsel, argued the cause and were on the briefs for the appellees.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HARVEY, C.J.:

These consolidated appeals are from judgments of the district court, which upon review of an interim order of the State Corporation Commission fixing a minimum price of eight cents per thousand feet at the wellhead for natural gas taken from the Hugoton gas field, found the same lawful and reasonable and directed their enforcement.

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