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- Title: Kansas Power & Light Co. v. Mobil Oil Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 08, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This appeal grows out of an action commenced by the Kansas Power and Light Company, the plaintiff and appellee in this case, to collect deficiency charges for transporting natural gas produced from wells owned by Mobil Oil Company and Cities Service Oil Company, the defendants and appellants herein. Summary judgment was entered for the plaintiff, and the defendants have appealed. For convenience, the parties will be designated as plaintiff, or KPL, on one side, and as defendants, or Mobil and Cities Service, on the other. From the record we glean the following facts: In January, 1956, the parties executed a twenty-year contract in which plaintiff agreed to buy certain quantities of natural gas from Mobil's predecessor, and from Cities Service (similar contracts being made between KPL and other producers in the Spivey-Grabs Field in Kingman County). The contracting parties recognized that the future production of gas from that field might exceed KPL's needs and accordingly they agreed that if, at the end of five years, excess gas was being produced from the defendants' wells, KPL would release such gas to the defendants and would transport it to a processing plant at a reasonable cost to be negotiated by the parties. The contract contained a further provision requiring arbitration on matters on which the parties were unable to agree.