BEL OIL CORPORATION, Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.
UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, and The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.
Morris RAUCH et al., Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 23, 1958.
April 23, 1958.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard E. Gerard, Cullen R. Liskow, Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, La., for Bel Oil Corp.
Bennett Boskey, Washington, D. C., and James D. Heldt, Dallas, Tex., for Nebo Oil Co., amicus curiae.
Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel, W. Russell Gorman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, Louis C. Kaplan, Atty., Washington, D. C., for Federal Power Commission.
George D. Horning, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner Union Oil Co. of California.
R. Graham Heiner, New York City (Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, Loftus E. Becker, New York City, on the brief), for Louisiana Land & Exploration Co.
Paul A. Smith (Smith & Fulton, Houston Tex., of counsel), for petitioner Morris Rauch and others.
LeBoeuf, Lamb & Leiby, James O'Malley, Jr., Craigh Leonard, William R. Joyce, Jr., New York City, for Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y., Intervenor.
David K. Kadane, Edward M. Barrett, Bertram D. Moll, Mineola, N. Y., for Long Island Lighting Co., Intervenor.
William R. Duff, Washington, D. C., J. Harry Mulhern, Edward S. Kirby, Newark, N. J., for Public Service Elec. & Gas Co., Intervenor.
Kent H. Brown, George H. Kenny, Albany, N. Y., for Public Service Comm. of N. Y., Intervenor.
Cullen & Dykman, Jackson A. Dykman, Edwin F. Russell, Robert B. Lisle, Brooklyn, N. Y., for Brooklyn Union Gas & Long Island Lighting Co., Intervenors.
Vincent P. McDevitt, Samuel G. Miller, Eugene J. Bradley, Philadelphia, Pa., Ledoux R. Provosty, Alexandria, La., for Philadelphia Electric Co., Intervenor.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, J. David Mann, Jr., Washington, D. C., John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for The United Gas Improvement Co., Intervenor.
James B. Henderson, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, William H. Davidson, Jr., Houston, Tex., Richard J. Connor, Gallagher, Connor & Boland, John T. Miller, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., Intervenor.
Before TUTTLE, JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
These petitions, presented on a single record, seek review of an order of the Federal Power Commission, Opinion No. 300, reported at 16 F.P.C. 100-118, dismissing certain rate filings of the petitioners as independent producer natural gas companies.1 The rate increases would have been from 8.79 cents to 16 cents per Mcf, plus a 1 cent state tax.
On June 7, 1954, the three parties all had contracts with Transcontinental...
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