Universal Gas Co. v. Central Illinois Public Service Co.

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, dismissing plaintiff’s suit, after a hearing on its amended and supplemental bill in equity and of the answers thereto. The complaint alleged that Indiana Consumers’ Gas and By-Products Company (the predecessor of Universal Gas Company, herein referred to as plaintiff), on or about June 25, 1932, entered into a contract with Central Illinois Public Service Company, one of the defendants, by which it agreed to sell and deliver to said defendant, in its pipe line at the Indiana-Illiuois state line, all natural gas…