MICHIGAN WIS. PIPE LINE CO. v. SUGARLAND DEVELOP. CORP.

No. 2651.

221 So.2d 593 (1969)

MICHIGAN WISCONSIN PIPE LINE CO., Plaintiff and Appellee, v. SUGARLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Burton Willis, St. Martinville, for defendant-appellant.

Shotwell, Brown & Sperry, by E. C. Stout, Monroe, and Earl H. Willis, St. Martinville, for plaintiff-appellee.

En Banc.


TATE, Judge.

The plaintiff is constructing a high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline. This new line is to be constructed 25 feet west of an existing line of the plaintiff company's. By the present proceedings, the company sues to expropriate a permanent servitude for an additional pipeline right of way 30 feet in width (5 feet of which overlapped the previous line's servitude).

The defendant landowner (Sugarland) appeals from judgment granting the...

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