WESTERN RESOURCES, INC. v. KANSAS CORPORATION COMM'N

No. 77,681

23 Kan. App.2d 664 (1997)

937 P.2d 964

WESTERN RESOURCES, INC., Petitioner/Appellant, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, Respondent/Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. Bregman, general attorney, and J. Michael Peters, associate general counsel, of Topeka, for appellant.

Larry W. Cowger, assistant general counsel, of Kansas Corporation Commission, of Topeka, for appellee.

A. Brady Cantrell, of Topeka, for intervenor Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board.

James P. Zakoura and Richard W. Hird, of Smithyman & Zakoura, Chartered, of Overland Park, and Fred Logan, of Logan & Logan, of Prairie Village, for intervenor Kansas Pipeline Partnership.

Before ELLIOTT, P.J., ROYSE and KNUDSON, JJ.


ELLIOTT, J.:

Western Resources, Inc., (WRI) and Kansas Pipeline Partnership (KPP) entered into natural gas sales and transportation contracts; both sought approval of the contracts by the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC). KCC consolidated the dockets and on a prior appeal, we held the "contracts and related requests contained in KPP's consolidated KCC dockets must be deemed approved by operation of law." Kansas Pipeline Partnership

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