AMERADA PETROLEUM CORP. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 5044, 5046, 5099, 5103.

231 F.2d 461 (1956)

AMERADA PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. MIDSTATES OIL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SKELLY OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garrett Logan, Tulsa, Okl. (Robert J. Stanton, John S. Miller, John R. Woodard, Hawley C. Kerr, Gayle M. Pickens, Hulette F. Aby, Tulsa, Okl., Gentry Lee, C. T. Klein, Watt H. McBrayer, Jr., and R. J. Leithead, Bartlesville, Okl., on the brief), for petitioners.

Lambert McAllister, Washington, D. C. (Willard W. Gatchell and Pascal B. Frazier, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before HUXMAN, MURRAH and PICKETT, Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

On June 7, 1954, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. State of Wisconsin, 347 U.S. 672, 74 S.Ct. 794, 796, 98 L.Ed. 1035, holding that the Federal Power Commission had jurisdiction over independent producers which engage in "the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale", and that such a company is a natural gas company as defined in the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S. C.A...

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