COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS CO. v. STATE CORPORATION COMM.

Nos. 41,515, 41,516, 41,555, 41,556

192 Kan. 1 (1963)

386 P.2d 266

COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS COMPANY, Appellee, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, SOUTHWEST KANSAS ROYALTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, and PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY, Appellants, Cross-Appellants, and Cross-Appellees. NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, SOUTHWEST KANSAS ROYALTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, and PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY, Appellants, Cross-Appellants, and Cross-Appellees. COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS COMPANY, Appellee, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, SOUTHWEST KANSAS ROYALTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, and PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY, Appellants, Cross-Appellants, and Cross-Appellees. NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, SOUTHWEST KANSAS ROYALTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, and PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY, Appellants, Cross-Appellants, and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed November 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Londerholm, of Topeka, argued the cause, and J. Robert Wilson, John D. Townsend, Charles C. McCarter, J.B. Grant, and Charles R. Escola, all of Topeka, and Richard C. Byrd, of Ottawa, were with him on the briefs for the appellant, The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas.

Dale M. Stucky, of Wichita, argued the cause, and A.E. Kramer and Bernard Nordling, both of Hugoton, Wayne E. Coulson, Paul R. Kitch, Donald R. Newkirk, Robert J. Hill, Gerrit H. Wormhoudt, Philip Kassebaum, John E. Rees, Robert T. Cornwell, Willard B. Thompson, David W. Buxton, Homer V. Gooing, and Hugo T. Wedell, all of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for the appellant, Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Association.

Jeff A. Robertson, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Wendell J. Doggett and C.A. Conoley, both of Kansas City, Missouri, and Chas. Vance and C.C. Linley, both of Liberal, were with him on the briefs for the appellant, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company.

Malcolm Miller, of Wichita, argued the cause, and L.M. Poe, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ray H. Calihan and Daniel R. Hopkins, both of Garden City, and Carl T. Smith, Stuart R. Carter, and Gerald Sawatzky, all of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for the appellee, Colorado Interstate Gas Company.

Mark H. Adams, II, of Wichita, argued the cause and Lawrence I. Shaw, F. Vinson Roach, and Patrick J. McCarthy, all of Omaha, Nebraska, Ray H. Calihan, Logan N. Green, Daniel R. Hopkins, and Ray H. Calihan, Jr., all of Garden City, Mark H. Adams, Charles E. Jones, William I. Robinson, J. Ashford Manka, Clifford L. Malone, John S. Seeber, Floyd E. Jensen, and Joe Rolston, all of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for the appellee, Northern Natural Gas Company, a corporation.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

HATCHER, C.:

These appeals are from judgments of the district court on the review of numerous orders of the State Corporation Commission establishing allowables for the Kansas-Hugoton Natural Gas Field. The review proceedings challenged the validity of monthly allowable orders and related orders pertaining to the gas field. The many appeals filed (thirty-nine) as Cases 41,515 and 41,516 are from identical judgments...

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