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PENNA v. WEST VIRGINIA

Nos. 15 and 16, Original.

262 U.S. 553 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 658

67 L.Ed. 1117

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. STATE OF OHIO v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Davis and Mr. George E. Alter, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with whom Mr. John G. Price, Attorney General of the State of Ohio, Mr. A. Leo Weil, Mr. E.E. Corn, Mr. Freeman T. Eagleson and Mr. R.G. Altizer were on the briefs, for plaintiffs.2

Mr. George M. Hoffheimer, with whom Mr. Edward T. England, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, Mr. Fred O. Blue, Mr. Philip P. Steptoe and Mr. William S. John were on the briefs, for defendant.3

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are suits, one by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the other by the State of Ohio, to enjoin the State of West Virginia from enforcing an act passed by her legislature (c. 71, Acts 1919) which the complainants believe will largely curtail or cut off the supply of natural gas heretofore and now carried by pipe lines from West Virginia into their territory...

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