TENNESSEE GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY v. STATE

Nos. 5-2082-5-2084 Consolidated.

335 S.W.2d 312 (1960)

TENNESSEE GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY, Trunkline Gas Company, American Louisiana Pipe Line Company, Appellants, v. STATE of Arkansas ex rel. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. H. Moses, Little Rock, Ohmer C. Burnside, Lake Village, Steptoe & Johnson and Henry C. Ikenberry, Jr., Washington, D. C., Harry E. Meek, Little Rock, for appellants.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., Little Rock, by Ovid T. Switzer, Crossett, Carneal Warfield, Lake Village, for appellee.


ROBINSON, Justice.

The issue here is whether the appellants, Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, Trunkline Gas Company, and American Louisiana Pipe Line Company, are liable for nominal damages to the State of Arkansas for having constructed pipelines used in transporting natural gas in interstate commerce under the bed of the Mississippi River at a point in Chicot County, Arkansas, the line crossing the river from Chicot County to the State of Mississippi. The trial...

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