Mapco, Inc. v. Williams

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

Mapco, Inc. initiated this litigation in January, 1977, by its petition to condemn a fifty foot easement on defendants’ land upon which Mapco had already implanted its pipelines in the summer of 1976. The landowner defendants answered to the condemnation petition and counterclaimed for ejectment. The trial court held a hearing on Mapco’s petition, following which defendants filed a motion to dismiss Mapco’s cause of action. The trial court sustained that motion and ordered the ruling be final for purposes of appeal. This appeal by Mapco promptly followed.

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