Case Name: IOWA-ILLINOIS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ezra Taft BENSON, Individually and as Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1957-02-28
Citations: 247 F.2d 22
Docket Number: No. 13570
Parties: IOWA-ILLINOIS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ezra Taft BENSON, Individually and as Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Appellees.
Judges: Before Edgerton, Chief Judge, and Prettyman and Burger, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 247
Pages: 22–22

Head Matter:
IOWA-ILLINOIS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ezra Taft BENSON, Individually and as Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Appellees.
No. 13570.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued Dec. 21, 1956.
Decided Feb. 28, 1957.
As Amended March 12, 1957.
Mr. Henry T. Rathbun, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. E. Fontaine Broun, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. Melvin Richter, Atty., Dept, of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub and Mr, Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellees.
Before Edgerton, Chief Judge, and Prettyman and Burger, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The District Court was unable to distinguish this case from Kansas City Power & Light Co. v. McKay and therefore concluded as a matter of law that the plaintiff, Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company, had no standing to sue. Upon that basis the trial judge denied the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction. This appeal followed.
Appellant would distinguish the Kansas City case, but we are unable to find decisive differences. The order of the District Court must therefore be affirmed and the case remanded with directions to dismiss the complaint.
Affirmed and remanded.
. 1955, 96 U.S.App.D.C. 273, 225 F.2d 924, certiorari denied 1955, 350 U.S. 884, 76 S.Ct 137, 100 L.Ed. 780.