Nazworthy v. Illinois Oil Co.

This action was commenced by plaintiff in error to recover from the defendant in error the sum of $320 for and on account of the alleged taking and appropriating, without his consent, a strip of land one mile long and of sufficient width in which to lay a six-inch oil line under the state highway, along the north side of plaintiff’s land.

It appears that plaintiff’s land lies south of and abutting State Highway No. 33, running east and west in Payne county, along the township line between townships 17 and 18 north.

In the year 1913 the Empire Refining Com-jpany constructed an oil pipe line…