Continental Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

This is a companion case to two cases we have decided today in Numbers 15,849—Deep South Oil Company of Texas v. Federal Power Commission, 247 F.2d 882, and 15,900—Shell Oil Company v. Federal Power Commission, 247 F.2d 900. Here, as in those cases, petitioner invokes the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 19(b) of the Natural Gas Act1 and seeks to have set aside an order of the Federal Power Commission which, among other things, determined that petitioner is a “natural-gas company” subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. The basic contentions and the grounds…