Legal Opinion
Humphries v. Williams Natural Gas Co.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 30, 1999No. 96-4196-SACPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CROW, Senior District Judge.
On October 15, 1996, Jack Humphries filed a petition in Shawnee County, Kansas, District Court seeking damages from Williams Natural Gas Company (WNG). Humphries’ petition alleges that WNG “acting through numerous employees, came upon the real property of Plaintiff with back hoes, bulldozers and other heavy equipment and unlawfully took to its own use” a tract of land owned by Humphries without paying any compensation. Hum-phries’ petition asks for damages in excess of $100,000 in recompense for WNG’s alleged acts of trespass, unlawful taking…
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