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THOMPSON v. CONSOLIDATED GAS CORP.,

No. 89.

300 U.S. 55 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 364

81 L.Ed. 510

THOMPSON ET AL. v. CONSOLIDATED GAS UTILITIES CORP. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 1, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wm. Madden Hill, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, and C.C. Small, with whom Mr. William McCraw, Attorney General, and Messrs. William C. Davis and W.J. Holt, Assistant Attorneys General, and Maurice Cheek were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. S.A.L. Morgan, with whom Messrs. C.C. Mount, J.J. Hedrick, C.H. Keffer, and D.H. Culton were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case challenges the validity of a gas proration order issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas for the Panhandle fields on December 10, 1935, and carried forward in supplemental orders.1 The orders were entered under Chapter 120 of the Texas Acts, 1935, Forty-Fourth Legislature, Regular Session, commonly known as House Bill 266. Under...

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