State v. Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Co.

PATTERSON, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal by the State of Mississippi from a decree of the Chancery Court of Sunflower County allowing Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Company compensation for lowering its pipelines necessitated by the construction of a drainage canal over its alleged easement across state lands.

In 1955 the Chairman and a commissioner of the Board of Commissioners of the Mississippi State Penitentiary executed and delivered a right-of-way instrument to American Louisiana Pipeline Company to construct and maintain a pipeline across penitentiary land for which the…