Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation v. Carman

STEWART, Judge.

This appeal by Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (hereinafter called “Texas Eastern”) is from a judgment dismissing its complaint wherein it sought an injunction against appellees, Orville Carman and Augusta Carman, to restrain them from obstructing the right claimed by it to lay an additional pipe line across their lands. The proper interpretation of an easement agreement has given rise to this controversy.

On April 7, 1951, for a valuable consideration, appellees granted Texas Eastern, its successors and assigns, a right of way “to construct, lay, maintain, operate,…