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HENDERSON CO. v. THOMPSON

No. 397.

300 U.S. 258 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 447

81 L.Ed. 632

HENDERSON COMPANY, v. THOMPSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. L.M. Fischer, with whom Mr. F.W. Fischer was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Wm. Madden Hill, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, and Mr. Wm. McCraw, Attorney General, with whom Messrs. Earl Street, Assistant Attorney General and C.C. Small were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether the prohibition by Texas of the use of sweet natural gas for the manufacture of carbon black in the Panhandle field is valid.

The suit is brought in the federal court for Western Texas by the Henderson Company, a Maine Corporation. It challenges the validity of the following provisions of Chapter 120 of the Acts of the Legislature of Texas, 1935, Forty-fourth Regular...

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