Landon v. Court of Industrial Relations of Kansas
District Court, D. Kansas
In Equity. Suit by John M. Randon and another, as receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, against the Court of Industrial Relations of the State of Kansas and others. On hearing on supplemental answers in the nature of applications by the defendant gas distributing companies for a decree setting aside the order of the Court of Industrial Relations, denying the petitions of the distributing companies for an increase in rates, and establishing a' standard of leakage.
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In Equity. Suit by John M. Randon and another, as receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, against the Court of Industrial Relations of the State of Kansas and others. On hearing on supplemental answers in the nature of applications by the defendant gas distributing companies for a decree setting aside the order of the Court of Industrial Relations, denying the petitions of the distributing companies for an increase in rates, and establishing a' standard of leakage. Order held unreasonable and confiscatory, in so far as it denied the increased rates, and the enforcement of that portion…
1Opinion of the Court
BOOTH, District Judge.
The above cause comes on for hearing upon the supplemental answers in the nature of applications by several distributing companies on the line of the receiver of the Kansas Natural Gas Company for a decree setting aside the order made by the -Court of Industrial Relations, dated August 18, 1920, which denied the petitions of said distributing companies for leave to increase the present 80-cent rate for natural gas, and ordered them to reduce the leakage in their respective systems to a standard of 200,000 cubic feet per annum per mile of 3-inch main equivalent. Any…
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