Fay v. Buckeye Pipe Line Co.

The defendant in error, the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, maintains and operates pipe lines for the transportation of crude oil through Huron county, Ohio, the same, being laid immediately to the north of the right of way of the New York Central Railroad Company, on adjoining land. The plaintiff in error, John A. Fay, is the owner of a dairy farm located in Wakeman township in said county. It appears from the evidence that in February, 1926, a pipe of the defendant in error broke on the premises of one Howard Wooster, located immediately south of the farm of the plaintiff in error. The crude oil…