Federal Power Commission v. Midwestern Gas Transmission

Full title: FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v . MIDWESTERN GAS TRANSMISSION CO. ET AL

Court: U.S.

Date published: Jan 12, 1959

358 U.S. 280 (1959)

Opinion

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT.

No. 515.

Decided January 12, 1959.

Certiorari granted; judgment vacated; and case remanded with instructions to dismiss respondent's petition for review as moot.

Reported below: 103 U.S.App.D.C. 360, 258 F.2d 660.

Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Doub, Leonard B. Sand, Samuel D. Slade, Willard W. Gatchell and Howard E. Wahrenbrock for petitioner.

Harry S. Littman for the Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. et al., and Clarence H. Ross for the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. et al., respondents.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated and the case is remanded to that court with instructions to dismiss respondent's petition for review as moot.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.