state
missouri
ex
rel
barrett
kansas
natural
gas
argued
april
decided
may
dana
kansas
city
kansas
city
gas
public
service
commission
missouri
robert
garver
caster
bartlesville
kansas
natural
gas
frank
atwood
carrollton
john
garfield
cleveland
ohio
jesse
barrett
james
lindsay
jefferson
city
breuer
rolla
state
missouri
missouri
public
service
commission
jackson
topeka
helm
justice
sutherland
delivered
opinion
cases
consolidated
argument
present
decision
single
question
whether
business
kansas
natural
gas
company
hereinafter
called
supply
company
consisting
transportation
natural
gas
one
state
another
sale
sale
delivery
distributing
companies
interstate
commerce
free
state
interference
facts
necessary
considered
reaching
conclusion
shortly
follows
supply
company
delaware
corporation
engaged
producing
buying
natural
gas
mostly
oklahoma
kansas
means
pipe
lines
transporting
kansas
kansas
state
missouri
state
selling
delivering
distributing
companies
sell
deliver
local
consumers
numerous
communities
kansas
missouri
gas
originating
kansas
mingled
transportation
lines
originating
oklahoma
pipe
lines
continuous
wells
place
delivery
three
cases
alike
fact
arise
action
supply
company
making
increase
rates
cents
cents
per
cubic
missouri
without
consent
approval
public
utilities
commission
state
kansas
notwithstanding
previous
order
federal
fixing
rate
action
utilities
commission
approving
fixing
rate
power
utilities
commission
state
challenged
ground
matter
commerce
clause
constitution
subject
state
control
appellants
brought
suit
federal
district
enjoin
supply
company
increasing
rates
injunction
prayed
denied
fed
defendants
error
filed
petition
kansas
writ
mandamus
compel
supply
company
establish
maintain
rate
cents
per
cubic
feet
gas
furnished
distributing
companies
otherwise
ordered
utilities
commission
case
presented
demurrer
return
answer
demurrer
sustained
peremptory
writ
mandamus
allowed
prayed
pac
suit
enjoin
supply
company
collecting
attempting
collect
increased
rates
various
gas
distributing
companies
consent
thereto
utilities
commission
state
secured
federal
district
denied
injunction
retained
bill
another
purpose
necessary
stated
central
trust
new
york
consumers
light
heat
power
fed
business
supply
company
exception
important
wholly
interstate
sales
deliveries
large
quantities
consumption
resale
consumers
relation
agency
supply
company
distributing
companies
relation
except
seller
buyer
public
utilities
comm
landon
sup
interest
former
commodity
ends
delivery
latter
title
control
thereupon
pass
absolutely
question
therefore
presented
simplest
form
claim
state
power
upheld
difficult
see
denied
case
interstate
transportation
sale
gas
federal
courts
denied
power
state
conceded
business
interstate
subject
federal
control
rested
decision
way
upon
fact
congress
acted
matter
absence
action
within
regulating
power
state
question
controlled
familiar
principles
transportation
gas
one
state
another
interstate
commerce
sale
delivery
local
distributing
companies
part
commerce
public
utilities
comm
landon
supra
page
sup
said
transportation
gas
pipe
lines
one
state
another
interstate
commerce
may
doubted
also
clear
part
commerce
receivers
might
sell
deliver
gas
transported
local
distributing
companies
free
unreasonable
interference
state
see
pennsylvania
west
virginia
sup
cases
cited
line
division
cases
absence
congressional
action
state
authorized
act
state
action
precluded
mere
force
commerce
clause
constitution
always
clearly
marked
absence
congressional
legislation
state
may
constitutionally
impose
taxes
enact
inspection
laws
quarantine
laws
generally
laws
internal
police
although
may
incidental
effect
upon
interstate
commerce
pennsylvania
railroad
hughes
sup
commerce
clause
constitution
force
restrains
imposing
direct
burdens
upon
interstate
commerce
minnesota
rate
cases
sup
ed
ann
cas
justice
hughes
speaking
said
state
enactment
imposes
direct
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
must
fall
regardless
federal
legislation
point
objection
congress
acted
state
directly
restrained
absence
federal
regulation
free
question
fully
discussed
case
nothing
beyond
citation
required
contention
public
interest
business
one
requiring
regulation
need
challenged
congress
thus
far
seen
fit
regulate
silence
sole
power
speak
equivalent
declaration
particular
commerce
shall
free
regulation
see
robbins
shelby
county
taxing
district
sup
delivery
gas
distributing
companies
however
interstate
movement
ends
subsequent
sale
delivery
companies
customers
retail
intrastate
business
subject
state
regulation
public
utilities
comm
landon
supra
page
sup
case
effect
interstate
commerce
indirect
incidental
sale
delivery
inseparable
part
transaction
interstate
local
essentially
national
enforcement
selling
price
transaction
places
direct
burden
upon
commerce
inconsistent
freedom
interstate
trade
purpose
commerce
clause
secure
preserve
though
commission
stood
state
line
imposed
regulation
upon
final
step
process
moment
interstate
commodity
entered
state
become
part
general
mass
property
therein
see
brown
houston
sup
nothing
penna
gas
pub
service
sup
inconsistent
view
gas
company
pennsylvania
corporation
transmitted
gas
pennsylvania
new
york
sold
directly
consumers
service
consumers
thing
regulated
charge
made
essentially
local
decision
rests
upon
feature
justice
day
course
opinion
said
page
sup
pipes
reach
customers
served
supplied
gas
directly
main
company
brings
state
nevertheless
service
rendered
essentially
local
sale
gas
company
local
consumers
reached
use
streets
city
pipes
laid
gas
conducted
factories
residences
required
use
service
similar
local
plant
furnishing
gas
consumers
city
commodity
reaching
point
distribution
new
york
subdivided
sold
retail
landon
case
far
phase
concerned
differs
fact
process
division
sale
consumers
carried
supply
company
independent
distributing
companies
cases
things
done
local
business
essentially
national
aspect
come
end
distinction
constitutes
basis
present
decision
clearly
recognized
landon
case
business
supplying
demand
local
consumers
local
business
even
though
gas
brought
another
state
drawn
distribution
directly
interstate
mains
whether
local
distribution
made
transporting
company
independent
distributing
companies
case
local
interest
paramount
interference
interstate
commerce
indirect
minor
importance
sale
gas
wholesale
quantities
consumers
distributing
companies
resale
consumers
numerous
cities
communities
different
transportation
sale
delivery
constitute
unbroken
chain
fundamentally
interstate
beginning
end
continuity
amount
established
course
business
paramount
interest
local
national
admitting
requiring
uniformity
regulation
uniformity
even
though
uniformity
governmental
nonaction
may
highly
necessary
preserve
equality
opportunity
treatment
among
various
communities
concerned
see
example
welton
state
missouri
hall
de
cuir
distributing
companies
operating
state
municipal
franchises
affect
question
enough
say
supply
company
operating
made
party
franchises
merely
business
franchise
holders
affirmed
reversed
affirmed