COLLINS v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MISSOURI

No. 530.

129 F.Supp. 722 (1955)

C. Richard COLLINS and Floyd Collins, co-partners, doing business as Collins Brothers Oil Company, Petitioners, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, and Laclede Gas Company, a Missouri corporation, Respondents.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, Central Division.

April 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. J. Middleton, Alton, Ill., Craig & Craig, Mount Vernon, Ill., Fordyce, Mayne, Hartman, Renard & Stribling, St. Louis, Mo., for petitioners.

James T. Blair, Jr., Jefferson City, Mo., James M. Douglas of Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Douglas, St. Louis, Mo., and Glenn D. Evans, of Public Service Commission of Missouri, Jefferson City, Mo., for respondents.


WHITTAKER, District Judge.

This matter is before me upon respondents' motion to remand to the Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri, from which it was removed.

Understanding of the problem requires a brief statement of the case. In 1953, the Missouri Legislature passed an act, commonly known as the Underground Gas Storage Act, which, in general, authorizes a gas storage company, as there defined, to condemn, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction...

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