Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. v. Zirjacks

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from the County Court of Victoria County awarding appellee, Mrs. Julia Zirjacks, the sum of $1,324.72, for land condemned for pipe line purposes by appellant, Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company, and for incidental damage to adjacent lands owned by appellee. Mrs. Zir-jacks owns a tract of 174.5 acres and the right-of-way condemned is a strip fifty feet wide running diagonally across the tract, occupying a total of 2.13 acres of land. The judgment of condemnation provided that the gas pipe line should be buried twenty-four inches beneath the surface of the…