PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORP. v. CITIES SERVICE GAS CO.

No. 43,268

191 Kan. 511 (1963)

382 P.2d 645

PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a Corporation, (Plaintiff), Appellee v. CITIES SERVICE GAS COMPANY, a Corporation, (Defendant), Appellant, and NORTHERN PUMP COMPANY, a Corporation; JOHN B. HAWLEY, JR.; G.A. KANE; G.S. DAVIDSON; NORMA D. DAVIDSON; C.M. UNDERWOOD; MYRA HOFMEISTER; HARRIET FERMAUD; JOHN W. SCHULTZ; ROSITA HAWLEY; MILTON C. NEUMAN; JOHN B. HAWLEY, JR., Trustee for TERRELL HAWLEY SIMONSON and CARL HOFMEISTER, (Intervenors), Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles V. Wheeler, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, argued the cause, and Conrad C. Mount and George E. Peabody, both of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Mark H. Adams, Charles E. Jones, Wm. I. Robinson, J. Ashford Manka, Clifford L. Malone, Mark H. Adams, II, John S. Seeber, and Philip L. Bowman, all of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for the appellant.

George C. Spradling, of Wichita, argued the cause, and W.F. Lilleston, Henry V. Gott, George Stallwitz, and Ralph M. Hope, all of Wichita, and Norton Standeven, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, were with him on the briefs for the appellee.

Lester L. Morris, Verne M. Laing, Ferd E. Evans, Jr., Ralph R. Brock, Joseph W. Kennedy, and C. Robert Bell, all of Wichita, were on the briefs for the intervenors.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

HATCHER, C.:

This appeal stems from an action to determine the price at which natural gas is to be purchased under the terms of a gas purchase contract.

The plaintiff, The Pan American Petroleum Corporation, is a major producer of natural gas from extensive leasehold acreage in the Kansas-Hugoton gas field.

The defendant, Cities Service Gas Company, is a natural...

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