MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 15320, 15321, 15352, 15354.

236 F.2d 785 (1956)

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. The OHIO OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. The SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. Wesley WEST, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Madole, Jack E. Earnest, Dallas, Tex., John E. McClure, Washington, D. C., Chas. B. Wallace, Earl A. Brown, Dallas, Tex., for Magnolia Petroleum Co.

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel for Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., Lambert McAllister, Asst. Gen. Counsel, William J. Grove, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Louis C. Kaplan, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

W. Hume Everett, Houston, Tex., C. F. Currier, Shreveport, La., Clayton L. Orn, Findlay, Ohio (Wheat, May & Shannon, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Ohio Oil Co.

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel for Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., Lambert McAllister, Asst. Gen. Counsel, William J. Grove, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Louis C. Kaplan, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Roger H. Doyle, New Orleans, La., Cullen R. Liskow, Lake Charles, La., Willard B. Wagner, F. P. Jones, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Superior Oil Co. (Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, La., of counsel).

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel for Federal Power Commission, William J. Grove, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., Lambert McAllister, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Louis C. Kaplan, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Jacques P. Adoue, W. H. Skipwith, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Wesley West.

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel for Federal Power Commission, William J. Grove, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., Lambert McAllister, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Louis C. Kaplan, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before BORAH, RIVES, and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


BORAH, Circuit Judge.

These are separate but companion cases and since they involve substantially similar facts and the same issues of law and come to us on one record they may conveniently be disposed of in one opinion. All of the petitioners herein have invoked the jurisdiction of this Court, under Section 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 717r(b), to review certain orders of the Federal Power Commission which petitioners seek to have set aside, vacated...

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