McArthur v. East Tennessee Natural Gas Co.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted Defendant-Appellant East Tennessee Natural Gas Company’s (hereinafter “the Utility”), application for permission to appeal in these consolidated cases because they have raised an issue of public interest that needs to be addressed and resolved. This case involves a dispute over the location of the boundaries of an easement. The broader, public policy issue concerns what duty, if any, a utility has to a landowner to give notice of the location of the boundaries of an easement, once the utility has selected its boundary.

The Utility is an interstate pipeline…