Central States Electric Co. v. City of Muscatine

I think that the claims to the fund in possession of the court below are to be determined by state law. The Federal Power Commission has no authority to determine the rates which petitioner may charge in these Iowa cities. Under the Natural Gas Act that is for Iowa and Iowa alone to determine. Public Utilities Commission v. United Fuel Gas Co., 317 U. S. 456, 467; Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co., 320 U. S. 591, 610. In that respect this case differs markedly from United States v. Morgan, 307 U. S. 183. If there had been no stay order entered and the interstate rate from the…