Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Harrington

ESTES, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks restitution for the difference in its contract rate for the purchase of gas and the price paid under an invalid minimum rate order of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; Plaintiff has moved for summary judgment.

The uncontroverted facts in this case áre as follows:

Defendants and others under the firm name of Harrington and Marsh, called “Sellers”, being the owners of mineral leases covering 78,000 acres of land in the Guyman-Hugoton gas field, in the County of Texas and State of Oklahoma, entered into a “Gas Purchase Contract” effective December 1, 1946,…