CONSOLIDATED EDISON CO. OF N. Y. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 12908, 12929, 12930.

271 F.2d 942 (1959)

CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INC., Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. CITY OF NEW YORK, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, National Coal Association, United Mine Workers of America, Fuels Research Council, Inc., Intervenors, Southern California Gas Company and Southern Counties Gas Company of California, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., New York City (Halcyon G. Skinner, LeBoeuf, Lamb & Leiby, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner Consolidated Edison Co. of New York.

Francis I. Howley, New York City (Charles H. Tenney, Corporation Counsel, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner City of New York.

Richard J. Connor, Washington, D. C. (John T. Miller, Jr., Gallagher, Connor & Boland, Washington, D. C., James B. Henderson, General Counsel, William N. Bonner, Jr., Houston, Tex., on the brief), for petitioner Transcontinental Gas Line Corp.

Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Washington, D. C. (Willard W. Gatchell, General Counsel, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Solicitor, Robert L. Russell, Asst. General Counsel, David J. Bardin, Atty., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Jerome J. McGrath, Washington, D. C. (Robert E. Lee Hall and Welly K. Hopkins, McGrath & McGrath, Washington, D. C., Robert M. Landis, Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for National Coal Assn., United Mine Workers and Fuels Research Council, intervenors.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, W. James MacIntosh, J. David Mann, Jr., John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., Washington, D. C. (T. J. Reynolds, Harry P. Letton, Jr., L. T. Rice, Los Angeles, Cal., Henry F. Lippitt, 2nd, New York City, Milford Springer, Robert M. Olson, Jr., and Joseph R. Rensch, Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief), amici curiae.

Before GOODRICH, STALEY, and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

We have before us three cases which were consolidated for argument. The main case is a petition by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco) to set aside an order of the Federal Power Commission which refused to issue it a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Another case is a petition by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) seeking the same relief. The same is true of the petition brought by the...

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