Cities Service Gas Company v. State Corporation Commission of Kansas

Decision Date20 January 1958
Docket NumberNo. 85,85
PartiesCITIES SERVICE GAS COMPANY, a Corporation, appellant, v. STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF KANSAS et al
CourtU.S. Supreme Court

Mr. Joe Rolston, (Messrs. Conrad C. Mount, O. R. Stites and Mark H. Adams, on the brief), for appellant.

Solicitor General Rankin (Assistant Attorney General Doub, Messrs. Paul W. Sweeney, Robert S. Green, Willard W. Gatchell and Howard E. Wahrenbrock, on the brief), for Federal Power Commission, as amicus curiae.

Messrs. Dale M. Stucky and Frank G. Theis (Mr. Clyde Milligan, on the brief), for appellees.

Messrs. Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen. of Arkansas, Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen. of Colorado, John Anderson, Atty. Gen., of Kansas, Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. and Bailey Walsh, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, C. S. Beck, Atty. Gen. of Nebraska, Fred M. Standley, Atty. Gen. of New Mexico, Leslie R. Burgum, Atty. Gen. of North Dakota, Mac. Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., and James N. Ludlum, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of Texas. E. R. Callister, Atty. Gen. of Utah, and Thomas O. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Wyoming, as amici curiae.

Messrs. Latham Castle, Atty. Gen. of

Illinois and William C. Wines, Asst. Atty. Gen., as amici curiae.

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