SUN OIL COMPANY v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

Nos. 16722, 16724, 16725.

255 F.2d 557 (1958)

SUN OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SOHIO PETROLEUM COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. MARACAIBO OIL EXPLORATION CORPORATION, and E. J. HUDSON, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied in May 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 16722:

Herf M. Weinert, Joiner Cartwright, Beaumont, Tex., Robert E. May, May, Shannon & Morley, Washington, D. C., Martin A. Row, Dallas, Tex., for Sun Oil Co.

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, Washington, D. C., William W. Ross, Louis L. Da Pra, Washington, D. C., Attys. for respondent Federal Power Commission.

No. 16724:

Robert E. May, May, Shannon & Morley, Washington, D. C., Dixon Morgan, George M. Hazlett, McAfee, Grossman, Taplin, Hanning, Newcomer & Hazlett, Cleveland, Ohio, for Sohio Petroleum Co.

Bennett Boskey, Washington, D. C., James D. Heldt, Dallas, Tex., for Nebo Oil Co., Inc., amicus curiae.

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel, W. Russell Gorman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, Washington, D. C., for Federal Power Comm.

No. 16725:

Jerome M. Alper, Washington, D. C., for Maracaibo Oil Exploration Corp. and others.

Bennett Boskey, Washington, D. C., James D. Heldt, Dallas, Tex., for Nebo Oil Co. Inc., amicus curiae.

Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel, W. Russell Gorman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, Washington, D. C., for Federal Power Commission.

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. Y., 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 and 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., Attys. 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.

Before TUTTLE, JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied in No. 16722 May 30, 1958.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

These three cases were tried by the Federal Power Commission on a single record and they are consolidated for hearing and argument here. The only substantial difference between them and others heretofore discussed in the opinions published today is not one which gives any new or added ground for a different holding on the merits or on the propriety...

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