Valero Eastex Pipeline Co. v. Jarvis

WORTHEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a land condemnation cause of action brought by Valero Eastex Pipeline Company (“Va-lero”) to condemn a limited permanent pipeline easement on land owned by Ben E. Jarvis, Julietta Jarvis, Sarah Jarvis Jones, Annell Melton Schoenvogel, and Eleanor Melton Cameron (“the landowners”). Valero presents two issues on appeal and because we hold that the trial court erred when it dismissed Valero’s suit for a limited permanent easement, we will reverse and remand this cause for further proceedings.

In 1990, Valero built a gas pipeline and…