STATE CORP. COM'N OF KAN. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 14704, 14706, 14733, 14743.

206 F.2d 690 (1953)

STATE CORP. COMMISSION OF KAN. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Kyle, Topeka, Kan., and Louis R. Gates, Kansas City, Kan., for State Corporation Commission of State of Kansas.

F. Vinson Roach, Omaha, Neb., and Richard J. Connor, Washington, D. C. (Lawrence I. Shaw, Omaha, Neb., and Gallagher, Osherman, Connor & Butler, Washington, D. C., with them on the brief), for Northern Natural Gas Co.

Bradford Ross and Reuben Goldberg, Washington, D. C. (Bernard A. Foster, Jr., Washington, D. C., and Alvin A. Kurtz, Alexandria, Va., with them on the brief), for Federal Power Commission.

Carl W. Cummins, St. Paul, Minn., for Northern States Power Co.; Donald Evans, Des Moines, Iowa, for Iowa Power & Light Company; P. L. Farnand, Minneapolis, Minn., for Minneapolis Gas Co; some presenting oral argument for Interveners generally, and others limiting their argument to the Interveners they represent.

Raymond A. Smith, Council Bluffs, Iowa, for Council Bluffs Gas Co., and George C. Pardee, Omaha, Neb., for Metropolitan Utilities District of Omaha, waived oral argument.

Vernon Myers for Iowa Public Service Co.; Lloyd J. Marti, Lincoln, Neb., for Central Electric & Gas Co.; G. T. Mullin, Minneapolis, Minn., for Minneapolis Gas Co.; Franklin M. Stone, Waseca, Minn., for Western States Utilities Co.; Norman H. Nitzkowski, Mankato, Minn., for Minnesota Valley Natural Gas Co.; George B. Sjosclius, St. Paul, Minn., for State of Minnesota; Timothy P. Quinn, St. Paul, Minn., for City of St. Paul; John F. Bonner, Minneapolis, Minn., for City of Minneapolis; and Ned Willis, Perry, Iowa, for Perry Gas Co., with them on the brief, for interveners.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

These cases are brought to this court upon petitions filed under Section 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act, 52 Stat. 821, 831; 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 717, 717r(b), to review opinions and orders of the Federal Power Commission concerning rates, charges and practices of Northern Natural Gas Company, "a natural gas company" within the meaning of the Act.1 Northern is the petitioner in all the cases except No. 14,704...

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