FRANKLIN ESTATES, INC. v. EQUITABLE GAS CO.


400 Pa. 601 (1960)

Franklin Estates, Inc. v. Equitable Gas Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. Stiteler, with him John M. Horn, and Smith, Best & Horn, for appellant.

C. William Berger, with him Morris M. Berger, Bernard S. Shire, and Berger & Berger, and Ezerski & Shire, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, June 29, 1960:

Prior to December 21, 1956, the appellant, Equitable Gas Company [herein called Equitable], pursuant to the power of eminent domain conferred upon it by the Natural Gas Act of May 29, 1885, P.L. 29, 15 PS § 2034, condemned a right of way to lay a 16-inch pipeline for the transportation of natural gas over and through a certain tract of land in Franklin Township, Westmoreland County, owned by the appellee...

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