Peck Iron & Metal Co. v. Colonial Pipeline Co.

•Colonial Pipeline Company filed in the court below its amended petition seeking to condemn certain easements for the construction and maintenance of a pipeline for the transportation of petroleum products as a common carrier over the land of Peck Iron & Metal Company, Incorporated, in the city of Chesapeake. The petition alleged that Colonial is a “Virginia public service corporation” whose business is the transportation of petroleum products as a common carrier for the public; that the easements sought to be condemned are necessary for its use in serving the public, and that it is…