Shell Pipe Line Corp. v. Svrcek

For the sum of $13.75, the appellant, Shell Pipe Line Corporation, secured a right of way across appellee’s 275-acre tract of land on which to construct its pipe line and telephone line, with the additional stipulation that appellant should pay all damages which might arise to crops, timbers,' etc., in the exercise of the grant. In constructing the pipe and telephone lines, appellant’s agents cut down 26 pecan trees, and appellee instituted this suit for damages, alleging, in substance, that the trees destroyed were a part of a valuable pecan orchard; that he realized a considerable sum of…