Delhi Gas Pipeline Corporation v. Swanson

BERRY, Justice:

Petitioner pipeline corporation [defendant below] requests this Court to assume original jurisdiction and prohibit the trial court from proceeding further.

Petitioner desired to construct a pipeline over a tract of and owned by plaintiffs below [owners]. During negotiations with owners petitioner’s contractor entered premises and started constructing pipeline. Differences arose between petitioner and owners. Thereafter petitioner filed condemnation proceedings to acquire a right of way over a strip of land 50 feet in width “together with the right of ingress and egress and such…