Gulf Oil Corporation

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GULF OIL CORPORATION

Docket 6689. Order, Sept. 15, 1959 Order denyibg—as an attack upon the weight and probative value of new evidence allegedly sought by complaint counsel through an economic survey— respondent’s motion for rehearing and reconsideration of the Commission’s order vacating the hearing examiner’s ruling fixing final date for presentation of evidence in support of complaint. This matter having come on to be heard upon respondent's motion for rehearing and reconsideration of the Commission’s order of December 14, 1958, which, among other things, vacates the examiner’s ruling fixing December 81, 1958, as the final date for presentation of evidence in support of the complaint, and upon the motion of counsel in support. of the complaint to strike the aforesaid motion or, in the alternative, for an extension of time m which to answer the motion; and It appearing that respondent’s motion is, in substantial part, an attack upon the weight and probative value of certain new evidence allegedly sought by counsel in support of the complaint through the conduct of a proposed economic survey, rather than a demonstration of the incorrectness of the order of December 14, 1958; and It further appearing that the events and circumstances cited by respondent as having occurred since the issuance of the order of December 14, 1958, have no substantial bearing on the propriety of said order when issued:

It is ordered, That. respondent's motion for rehearing and reconsideration be, and it hereby is, denied.

It is further ordered, That. the motion of counsel in support of the complaint to strike respondent’s aforementioned motion and the alternative motion to extend the time for said counsel to answer respondent’s motion be, and they hereby are, denied.