Melder v. Phillips Pipe Line Co.

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

This is an easement case. Appellant Frankie R. Melder and appellants Francis A. Rech and Anna M. Rech filed separate actions against appellee Phillips Pipe Line Company for damages sustained when Phillips replaced an existing pipeline that traversed their respective lands with a new pipeline constructed parallel to, but fifteen feet north of the previously existing line.

The facts and issues in the two cases being similar, they were heard jointly by the trial court without a jury. The trial court entered take-nothing judgments against appellants in both cases, and both…