KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO. v. McKAY

Civ. A. No. 4276-50.

115 F.Supp. 402 (1953)

KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO. et al. v. McKAY, Secretary of the Interior, et al.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

June 17, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilmer & Broun, E. Fontaine Broun, Henry T. Rathbun, Washington, D. C., Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Raymond T. Jackson, Sidney D. L. Jackson, Jr., John R. Baskin, Alan G. Rorick, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs.

Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Arthur J. Doyle, Kansas City, Mo., for Kansas City Power & Light Co.

Floyd M. Sprague, St. Joseph, Mo., for St. Joseph Light & Power Co.

Patterson, Cowherd, Smith & Patterson, A. Z. Patterson, Kansas City, Mo., for Missouri Public Service Co., Arkansas-Missouri Power Co., and Missouri Edison Co.

R. K. McPherson, Joplin, Mo., for Empire Dist. Electric Co.

James D. James, Lester G. Seacat, Jefferson City, Mo., for Missouri Power & Light Co.

John A. Woodbridge, Charles J. Dougherty, St. Louis, Mo., for Union Electric Co. of Missouri.

Oliver & Oliver, R. B. Oliver, Jr., Cape Girardeau, Mo., for Missouri Utilities Co.

Holmes Baldridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C. (Edward H. Hickey, Morton Liftin, Attys., Department of Justice, W. Carroll Hunter, Sol., Bernard Gekoski, Henry E. Freedman, Attys., Department of Agriculture, Mastin G. White, Sol., Theodore H. Haas, Atty., Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., R. L. Davidson, Chief Counsel, Jesse L. Ballard, Atty., Southwestern Power Administration, Tulsa, Okl., of counsel), for defendants.

Dalton, Treasurer & Dalton, John M. Dalton, Kennett, Mo., for M & A Electric Power Cooperative, amicus curiae.

Jack L. Rorschach, Vinita, Okl., for Kamo Electric Cooperative, Inc., amicus curiae.

Stockard & Stockard, Alden A. Stockard, Gregory C. Stockard, Jefferson City, Mo., for Central Electric Power Cooperative, and Sho-Me Power Corp. amici curiae.

Pickett, Pickett & Andereck, Trenton, Mo., of counsel, Eugene E. Andereck, Phil Hauck, Russell N. Pickett, Trenton, Mo., for N. W. Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., amicus curiae.


McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

On October 3, 1950, Kansas City Power & Light Company, of Kansas City, Missouri, and nine other privately-owned electric-utility corporations,1 doing business in and about the State of Missouri, joined as plaintiffs in filing suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for injunctive, declaratory and other relief against certain officials of the United States Government responsible...

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