Public Util. Comm'n of Kan. v. Landon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion. That the court below had jurisdiction over the Kansas and Missouri defendants because of the ancillary and dependent character of the suit, see 234 Fed. Rep. 1.54; Phoenix Ry. Co. v. Geary, 239 U. S. 277; Krippendorf v. Hyde, 110 U. S. 276; White v. Ewing, .159 U. S. 36. There is no misjoinder of causes. The property is a unit, to be protected as such.
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APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion. That the court below had jurisdiction over the Kansas and Missouri defendants because of the ancillary and dependent character of the suit, see 234 Fed. Rep. 1.54; Phoenix Ry. Co. v. Geary, 239 U. S. 277; Krippendorf v. Hyde, 110 U. S. 276; White v. Ewing, .159 U. S. 36. There is no misjoinder of causes. The property is a unit, to be protected as such. The protection of the commerce clause extends not only to the transportation of the article, but also to the sale of the article…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
These are appeals by different groups of defendant^ below from decrees prohibiting public conunissions and officers of Kansas and Missouri, certain ^municipalities and many local gas distributing companies from interfering with establishment and maintenance of selling rates for gas to consumers sufficiently high to compensate receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company. 234 Fed. Rep. 152; 242 Fed. Rep. 658; 245 Fed. Rep. 950.
The Kansas Natural Gas Company — hereinafter, The Gas Company — a Delaware corporation, owned a system of pipe lines extending from Oklahoma and Kansas points to some,…
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