AM. EXPLORATION v. COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION

No. 85-3227.

779 F.2d 310 (1985)

AMERICAN EXPLORATION COMPANY; The Clinton Oil Company; Edco Drilling & Producing, Inc.; Hopco Resources, Inc.; Land Pro Vest, Inc.; Universal Minerals, Inc.; Vicking Resources Corporation; Consolidated Resources of America; CRA 1977 Gernsey County Drilling Program; CRA/Gradvantage 1977 Program A; CRA 1979 Program B; CRA 1978 Program A, dba CRA/Gradvantage 1979 Program A; CRA 1978 Guernsey County Drilling Program; CRA/Spectrum 7 1979 Drilling Program aka CRA/RD 1979; CRA 1979 Guernsey County Drilling Program I dba 1979 Guernsey Co.; Drilling Program I; CRA/Gradvantage 1977 Program B; CRA/Spectrum 7 1980 Program A; CRA-1981 Drilling Program; CRA/Spectrum 7 1980 Drilling Program I dba CRT Spectrum 7 1980 Drilling Program; CRA-1982 Drilling Program, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

July 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Elam, argued, Duke W. Thomas, Thomas B. Ridgley, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Columbus, Ohio, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John E. Beerbower, argued, Robert N. Feltoon, Richard M. Breslow, and Susan P. Jordan, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, New York City, for defendant-appellee.

Before KEITH, MERRITT and CONTIE, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action under Ohio law, the plaintiffs, a group of Ohio corporations and partnerships who are owners, operators and producers of natural gas wells located in the Clinton standstone formation in eastern Ohio, seek a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendant Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia) from implementing a plan to purchase only 25% of the gas produced by these wells during 1985 under a long-term "take or...

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