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

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

170 Kan. 341 (1951)

225 P.2d 1054

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 denying a rehearing filed January 6, 1951.

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.

OPINION DENYING MOTION FOR A REHEARING

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HARVEY, C.J.:

In their motion for rehearing counsel for appellants contend that since the large percentage of the gas produced or purchased by appellants in the Hugoton gas field is transported in interstate commerce and sold for resale in other states the authority to determine a wellhead value of gas and to make a price fixing order is vested in the Federal Power Commission...

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