Bybee v. Northern Utilities Company

This opinion has to do with a right-of-way easement for a pipeline or pipelines through land presently owned by Kenneth Bybee, the defendant and appellant in this case. The easement was granted in 1922 by Edward Stelzner to Producers and Refiners Corporation, a Wyoming corporation. Since that time ownership of the land described in the easement has passed by mesne conveyances to Bybee, and Northern Utilities Company, plaintiff and appel-lee, claims to be a successor in interest to Producers and Refiners Corporation.

In 1960 the Wyoming Public Service Commission issued a Certificate of Public…