Mullins v. United Carbon Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing’.

The appellee is the holder of an oil and gas lease on a tract of land on Coal Hollow, a small stream or drain at the edge of Pikeville. Banner Mullins, for six years or more, had lived on the side of a passway in a small house rented from the owner of the land. There were other tenant houses along the way. The Company laid a three inch gas pipe line on the surface of this roadway within a foot of the steps to Mullins ’ porch. The road was narrow. The Company had piled some pipe on it above his house and in order for Mullins to turn his…