Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Bailey

This is an action tried at a trial term before a jury in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injury to its oil pipe line resulting from an alleged trespass by the defendant.

The essential facts, as proved on the trial, are simple and generally conceded by both parties. The plaintiff, a producer *365and distributor of oil and petroleum products, is the owner of an easement to maintain and operate and has, in fact, for a long period of time operated a pipe line across certain rural property-in Cattaraugus County now owned by the Vacuum G-as Burner Company. At the time involved herein,…