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HUNTER CO. v. McHUGH

No. 25.

320 U.S. 222 (1943)

64 S.Ct. 19

88 L.Ed. 5

HUNTER COMPANY, INC. v. McHUGH, COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 8, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Joe T. Cawthorn and John M. Madison, with whom Mr. C. Huffman Lewis was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. George A. Wilson and T. Hale Boggs, with whom Messrs. Arthur O'Quin and M.C. Thompson were on the brief, for the Commissioner of Conservation; and Mr. Arthur O'Quin, with whom Messrs. M.C. Thompson and Leon O'Quin were on the brief, for the Southern Production Co., — appellees.

Messrs. J. Howard Marshall and Robert E. Hardwicke filed a brief on behalf of Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War, as amicus curiae, supporting the constitutionality of the state Act.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant is the lessee under an oil and gas lease of 190 acres in the Logansport Field in Louisiana. Under permit from the state it has drilled a well on the leased area, which was completed about June 1, 1938, and came into production in December, 1940. To enable it to reach a market for the natural gas produced by this well, appellant has constructed and owns a pipe line which extends from its well to the line of the United Gas Pipe Line Company.

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