United States v. Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation

NIELDS, District Judge.

Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company, a Delaware corporation, moves the court for an order granting it leave to intervene in this proceeding and to file the petition annexed to its motion and requiring defendants respectively to answer or otherwise plead thereto.

Petitioner alleges it owns 324,326 shares of the 728,652 shares of the outstanding common stock of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company.

This suit in equity was brought by the Attorney General of the United States under the Anti-Trust Acts, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq. The defendants duly answered and denied the material…