Shell Pipe Line Corp. v. Coston

PELPHREY, O. J.

The Shell Pipe Line Corporation has appealed from judgment rendered against it for damages in favor of R. M. Coston, which Coston claimed arose from the construction of a pipe line and telephone line across his land under an easement.

The written instrument granting the easement conferred upon the pipe line company a “right of way from time to time to lay, construct, reconstruct, replace, renew, maintain, repair, change the size of and remove pipes and pipe lines for the transportation of oil, petroleum, or any of its products, gas, water and other substances, or any thereof,…