Lohmann v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America

STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is an eminent domain case. Judgment was rendered upon the jury verdict. Defendants have brought this appeal. The parties will be referred to here as petitioner and defendants, as in the trial court.

Defendants’ first series of points of error attack the authority of petitioner to condemn the land in question for the purpose of constructing and operating a gas pipeline, because petitioner is not a common carrier and the permit granted by the Federal Power Commission (hereinafter referred to as the F.P.C.) is invalid for a number of reasons. As grounds for the…