Ohio Oil Co. v. Fowler

Appellant, The Ohio Oil Company, proposes to operate a common carrier pipeline for condensate and oil from two producing fields to a refinery twenty-five miles away. The question is whether Code of 1942, Section 2780, authorizes it to condemn right of ways over land, including appellees’, for the construction of such pipeline ; and more particularly, whether Ohio is a company “incorporated or organized for the purpose of building and constructing pipelines and appliances for the conveying and distribution of oil or gas ...” Code Section 2780 empowers such companies to exercise the right of…