Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

This suit was originally filed by the El Paso Natural Gas Company against A. O. Smith Corporation, for the purpose of obtaining a'declaratory judgment construing a contract between the parties. The contract involved the purchase and sale of á supply of large diameter steel pipe, to be used in the construction of a pipe line for transporting natural gas from New Mexico to California. An injunction was also sought to prevent the Smith Corporation from selling steel pipe to the Russian Government until it had completed its contract for the delivery of pipe to the El Paso…