[DOWNLOAD] "State, Ex Rel. v. Sinclair Pipe Line Co." by Supreme Court of Kansas ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State, Ex Rel. v. Sinclair Pipe Line Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 08, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an original action in mandamus by the state on the
relation of the attorney general and the corporation commission.
An alternative writ was issued. The four defendants filed motions
to quash the writ. The cause was finally submitted on such
motions pursuant to an order of this court. The petition alleged various powers of the commission, among
them the supervision of the disposition of franchises and
properties and the termination of services and the fixing of
rates and charges; that defendant Sinclair Pipe Line Company,
which will be referred to herein as Pipe Line Company, was
engaged in the transportation of petroleum products by pipe line
within the state and was a public utility within the meaning of
G.S. 1949, 55-501, 66-104 and 66-105, and among the pipe-line
systems operated by it in the state was one from the vicinity of
Wellsville to the vicinity of Humboldt, known as the
Paola-Humboldt system, and one from Eureka to Humboldt, known as
the Eureka-Humboldt (these will be referred to as the Paola and
Eureka systems); that defendant Sinclair Crude Oil Company, which
will be referred to herein as Crude Oil Company, had for its
primary business the purchasing of crude oil, including the
purchasing along the above two pipe-line systems; that both the
above systems were controlled and under the domination of the
Sinclair Oil Corporation, a holding company which owned all the
stock of each.