Ferguson v. Colonial Pipeline Co.

This is a companion case to Peck Iron & Metal Company, Incorporated v. Colonial Pipeline Company, decided at the present session. 206 Va. 711, 146 S.E. 2d 169. Similar to that case, the principal questions here involved are whether the lower court properly held that, (1) Colonial may acquire by eminent domain easements for the construction and maintenance of a pipeline for the transportation of petroleum products as a common carrier over the land of William H. Ferguson and Selma K. Ferguson in James City county, and (2) the right to maintain a proceeding for that purpose is not conditioned…