Citizens' Pipe Line Co. v. Twin City Pipe Line Co.

The presenil litigation began in this manner. The Harding Class Company, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of glass, required and used a large quantity of gas as fuel which it had contracted to purchase from the Twin City Pipe Line Company, a corporation engaged in the business of distributing natural gas in and within the vicinity of Port Smith, Arkansas. The glass company had for a time used the gas delivered by the pipe line company until, through the means of a subsidiary company, it acquired the control of certain gas wells in the State of Oklahoma. The stockholders of the glass…