Southern Pipe Line Corporation v. Deitch

OPINION

GREEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in a suit wherein appellant Southern Pipe Line Corporation is condemning the surface estate of one acre of land in the southwest corner of a tract of 171 acres owned by appellees. (See sketch) The purpose of the taking is the continued use of the acre tract as a terminal pumping station and storage fácility, a use to which it had been put by appellant since July 1948. The one acre had been leased to appellant by the then owner of the land on July 1, 1948 for ten years, with an option to renew for an additional ten years, which option…