NEVADA NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE CO. v. FEDERAL POWER COM.

Nos. 17074, 17228, 17229, 17201, 17215.

267 F.2d 405 (1959)

NEVADA NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE CO., Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY and Southern Counties Gas Company of California, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. PEOPLE of the STATE OF CALIFORNIA and Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, By Its Attorney General, Edmund G. BROWN, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. McCrea, Las Vegas, Nev., W. M. Laub, Ezekiel G. Stoddard, Washington, D. C., for petitioner Nevada Natural Gas Pipe Line Co.

F. T. Searls, Malcolm H. Furbush, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner Pacific Gas & Elec. Co.

L. T. Rice, Henry F. Lippitt, II, Los Angeles, Cal., T. J. Reynolds, H. P. Letton, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Southern California Gas Co.

Milford Springer, Robert M. Olson, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Southern Counties Gas Co. of California.

Franklin G. Campbell, Everett C. McKeage, San Francisco, Cal., Roderick B. Cassidy, Asst. Chief Counsel, Harold J. McCarthy, Principal Counsel, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner People of the State of Cal. and Public Utilities Commission of the State.

Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., William M. Bennett, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner, State of California.

William W. Ross, Atty., F.P.C., Willard W. Gatchell, General Counsel, F. P.C., Howard E. Wahrenbrock, So. Counsel, F.P.C., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Gregory A. Harrison, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Malcolm T. Dungan, San Francisco, Cal., George D. Horning, Jr., Washington, D. C., Allen R. Grambling, El Paso, Tex., Boris H. Lakusta, San Francisco, Cal., Henry F. Lippitt, II, Los Angeles, Cal., Graham, James & Rolph, San Francisco, Cal., for intervenors.

Before JONES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

El Paso Natural Gas Company (El Paso Gas) is a natural gas company within the meaning of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 717 et seq. It gathers, transports and sells natural gas in interstate commerce to the petitioners, Nevada Natural Gas Company (Nevada Gas), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (P. G. & E.), Southern California Gas Company (Southern California Gas) and Southern Counties Gas Company of California (Southern Counties...

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