Shell Pipe Line Corp. v. State

Shell Pipe Line Corporation appeals from a judgment of the district court of Carter county adjudging it guilty of maintaining a nui-sancé and enjoining the further main tenance thereof at the suit of the county attorney.

The county commissioners had taken steps to open a road along a section line where no road had previously existed. Shell maintains a pipe line right of way that crosses the section line, which it purchased many years ago, and its two pipe lines are buried. Owing to the terrain and rocky nature of the soil the county proposes to establish a road grade lower than the present…