Transportation Co. v. Standard Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wood County, Action by Transportation Company against Standard Oil Company. Judgment for defendants and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BranNON, Judge:
The West Virginia Transportation Company brought trespass on the case in Wood County against the Standard Oil Company and the Eureka Pipe Line Company, all corporations, and *613upon demurrer to the declaration judgment was rendered for the defendants. The first count of the declaration charges that the plaintiff was engaged in the business of transporting petroleum oils_by; means of pipe lines and tank cars'from Volcano and vicinity-to Parkersburg, and in storing oil, and had expended three hundred thousand dollars in acquiring land, rights of way, lines of tubing and other things…
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