CITY OF PITTSBURGH v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 12895.

237 F.2d 741 (1956)

CITY OF PITTSBURGH, Chotin Towing Corporation, and Greenville Towing Company, Inc., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 8, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Robert Engel, of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa., pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, and Harold Leventhal, with whom Mr. Bryce Rea, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. William J. Grove, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Federal Power Commission, with whom Mr. Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel, Federal Power Commission, was on the brief, for respondent.

Messrs. R. Clyde Hargrove, of the bar of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Shreveport, La., pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, and Charles I. Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa., for intervenor.

Mr. Martin L. Friedman, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for intervenor.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and BAZELON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.


BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review and set aside an order of the Federal Power Commission under § 7 of the Natural Gas Act1 granting the application of Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The certificate authorized abandonment of the Little Inch pipeline between Baytown, Texas, and Moundsville, West Virginia, as a natural gas pipeline. As a substitute, the...

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