Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States, 308 U.S. 141 (1939)

Name: Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States, 308 U.S. 141 (1939) - Syllabus
Author: U.S. Supreme Court

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Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States

No. 25

Argued October 19, 1939
Decided November 13, 1939
308 U.S. 141

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Syllabus

1. An oil company owning and operating a pipeline through which it transports to its own refineries for its own refining purposes, partly across state lines, oil which it purchases from producers at the mouths of their wells, is an interstate "pipeline company" and a "common carrier" within the meaning of § 1(1)(b), and (3), of the Interstate Commerce Act, and, under § 19a(a) and (e), may constitutionally be required by the Commission to furnish maps, charts, and schedules of its pipeline properties for use in valuing such properties under that section. P. 143.

2. In § 1(b)(3) of the Interstate Commerce Act, which provides that the term "common carrier" shall include

all pipeline companies; express companies; sleeping-car companies, and all persons, natural or artificial, engaged in such transportation or transmission as aforesaid as common carriers for hire,

the final clause is conjunctive, not a modifier, and does not affect the generality of the first clause as to pipeline companies. P. 145.

3. The valuation provisions, § 19a(a) and (e), are so far separable from the regulatory provisions of the Act that, in a suit to set aside an order under that section, the question whether the pipeline owner, if subjected to regulation of its rates, etc., as a common carrier would be deprived of property without due process does not properly arise. P. 146.

4. The validity of the provisions of § 19a(a) and (e) of the Act does not depend upon the extent of a pipeline company’s operations. Id.

25 F.Supp. 460 affirmed.

Appeal from a decree of the District Court of three judges, which dismissed a bill to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States, 308 U.S. 141 (1939). cited in 1939, 308 U.S. 141, pp.308 U.S. 142. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CUBA43Z1W1UUHLC.

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