Harlan F. Stone

Name: Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v. Slattery — Opinion of the Court
Author: Harlan F. Stone

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v…

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“Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v. Slattery — Opinion of the Court”, is a work by Harlan F. Stone. It explores elements such as the District Company, appellant and commission.

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“ The appellant assails the statute as unconstitutional so far as it authorizes the commission to obtain from appellant's books and records any information bearing upon the reasonableness of the price of gas sold to the District Company. Appellant recognizes that the absence of 'arm's length bargaining' between contracting affiliates is sufficient to support such an inquiry, and may be an adequate ground, in fixing the reasonable rates of a public utility company, for disregarding the price at which it purchases the commodity distributed. ”

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“ The extent to which a federal court may rightly relax the rule where the order of the administrative body is assailed in its entirety, rests in the sound discretion which guides exercise of equity jurisdiction. ”

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“ We are not unaware that, as the statute recognizes, [2] there are other methods of control of a corporation than through such ownership. Common management of corporations through officers or directors, or common ownership of a substantial amount, though less than a majority of their stock, gives such indication of unified control as to call for close scrutiny of a contract between them whenever the reasonableness of its terms is the subject of inquiry. In these circumstances, appellant can hardly object to the attempted inquiry into the fairness of the price. ”

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Harlan F. Stone, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v…

“ Every corporation, ten per centum or more of whose voting capital stock is owned by any person or corporation owning ten per centum or more of the voting capital stock of such public utility; * * *
' (f) Every corporation which has one or more elective officers or one or more directors in common with such public utility.' [1]
In November, 1936, the commission, in the exercise of its authority under the act, began a proceeding to which the District Company was, and appellant was not, a party, to determine whether the rates charged by the District Company should be reduced. ”

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Harlan F. Stone, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v…

“ We can find in the commerce clause and the Fourteenth Amendment no basis for saying that any person is immune from giving information appropriate to a legislative or judicial inquiry. A foreign corporation engaged exclusively in interstate commerce within he state is amenable to process there as are citizens and corporations engaged in local business. ”

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Harlan F. Stone, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v…

“ It is said that equity alone can afford adequate relief because of the cumulative penalties for failure to comply with the order. See sections 76 and 77 of the act (Ill.Rev.Stat.1937, 1937, c. 111 2/3, §§ 80, 81) .
We have no occasion to consider the merits of these objections. It suffices to say that the statute itself provides an adequate administrative remedy which appellant has not sought. ”

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