GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.
In 1959 the appellant, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, in the mistaken belief that it had a valid easement across the vacant 17-acre rural tract involved in this case, buried a long-distance telephone cable along the east edge of the property. The cable was forty inches deep and about twelve feet inside the boundary line, which abutted a railroad right-of-way.
Six years later the appellee purchased the tract and, upon learning...
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