Legal Opinion
Sun Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1960No. 321PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
This case presents many of the same issues as Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. v. Federal Power Comm’n, ante, p. 137. Petitioner, Sun Oil Company, is an independent producer making sales of natural gas to transmission companies in interstate commerce for ultimate resale to the public. In 1947 it entered into a contract with the Southern Natural Gas Company, a transmission company, for the sale of natural gas which petitioner controlled in the Gwinville Gas Field in Jefferson Davis and Simpson Counties, Mississippi. The term of the contract was 10 years and the sales price was roughly eight cents…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Andrew G. Nelson, Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Sun Oil Company v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Company (Formerly Sunray Oil Corporation) v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1956
- Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. v. Federal Power CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
3Cited by37 opinions
- California v. Southland Royalty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- J. M. Huber Corporation v. William Harvey Denman and Jay Pumphrey, Trustees of the Estate of S. B. Burnett, DeceasedCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Weymouth v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1960
- United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. McCombsSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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