Paines Gdn. v. Calor Oil & Gas Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice O’Rear

Reversing.

The fiscal cour-t of Jefferson county granted to appellee the right to lay its pipe lines for conveying natural gas from its field in Meade county to Louisville, Ky., under a certain public highway in the county. The county owned only the easement for the public travel in the. highway. The fee wias owned, as to particular parts of it,-by appellants, the abutting owners. The question for decision in this case is whether the use of the highway by appellee’s gas line is an additional servitude upon appellants’ estate, land argument is made…