Sinclair Pipe Line Company v. Archer County, Texas

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Alleging that, as the reasonable and necessary cost of accommodating or adjusting its existing pipe lines to widened or relocated rights of way, for which defendant had undertaken with the Highway Commission to acquire the necessary clearances, it had made expenditures, for which it had not been reimbursed, plaintiff brought this suit for a declaratory judgment, that it was entitled to recover them as compensation for property taken without due process of law.

The defendant denying liability, the cause was tried to the court without jury, and the district judge, setting…