Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp.

Mr. Justice Brandéis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case challenges the validity of a gas proration order issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas for the Panhandle fields on December 10, 1935, and carried forward in supplemental orders. 1 The orders were en tered under Chapter 120 of the Texas Acts, 1935, Forty-Fourth Legislature, Regular Session, commonly known as House Bill 266. Under the orders the production of sweet gas from the plaintiffs’ wells is limited to an amount below their market requirements under existing contracts, below their present production, and below the…