Richfield Oil Corp. v. Public Utilities Commission

In these proceedings Richfield Oil Corporation, an oil and gas producer, and Southern California Edison Company, a public utility electrical corporation, attack two orders of the Public Utilities Commission determining that in respect to its gas operations Richfield is a public utility gas corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission and ordering it to cease and desist from delivering gas to Edison’s Mandalay steam-electric generating plant.

This controversy arose out of Edison’s wish to obtain and Richfield’s willingness to deliver a dependable supply of natural gas to be used as…