Minard Run Oil Co. v. Pennzoil Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

In 1929 the Minard Run Oil Company, owner of a 6500 acre tract of land in McKean County, sold to the Tide Water Pipe Co., Ltd. an easement through its property for the laying, operating and maintenance of a 6 inch pipeline for the purpose of transporting petroleum. The defendant Pennzoil Company is the present owner of the easement and the defendant National Transit Company is its lessee.

At the time of the sale of the easement rights a road on the plaintiffs property crossed over the defendant’s pipeline at two different places. Because of an increase in its…