ANR Pipeline Co. v. 60 Acres of Land

OPINION

ROBERT HOLMES BELL, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff ANR Pipeline, Inc. (“ANR”) filed this condemnation action to acquire certain subsurface strata and formations for the storage of natural gas. ANR seeks to condemn only the subsurface formations for storage and not the native gas itself. Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs Earl G. Coon, Marlene F. Coon, Carl H. Meyer, Dorothy L. Meyer, and William O. Lutz, Trustee of the Eleanor G. Nyquist Lutz Revocable Trust, (collectively referred to as “Defendants”), the owners of the subsurface strata and formations at issue, have filed a counterclaim alleging…