PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS COMPANY v. Day

The assignments of error involve the validity of the plaintiff’s easement. The defendants contend it is invalid (1) for failure to locate the line upon which it was to be 'built; (2) for failure of the grantors to acknowledge its execution before a proper officer; and (3) for failure of the plaintiff to comply with the “supplementary agreement” to construct its lines along the power company’s right of way.

The easement here involved is not open to the objection the line along which the pipes were to be laid is not defined in the grant. The instrument itself gives the grantee the right to…