Roebuck v. Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.

This appeal is from a declaratory judgment rendered by the Common Pleas Court of Shelby County decreeing that appellee, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, has an easement granting it the right to lay a pipeline, and maintain, operate, repair, replace and remove same on land owned by appellants, Neale Roebuck and Gene C. Lemming, and that Columbia’s easement is paramount to the title of Roebuck and Lemming.

The facts, briefly, are as follows:

On November 24, 1924, one Thomas Jelle, then the owner of appellants’ land, executed and delivered to Ohio Fuel Gas Company a written instrument…