Curtis v. Shell Pipe Line Corp.

Defendant was the ovyner of a pipe line which ran across plaintiff’s property by a right-of-way agreement; and, on or about December 18, 1951, defendant dug a ditch upon, its said right-of-way.

Flaintiff’s amended petition alleged: that he-suffered injury and1 damages, a painful and permanent injury and rupture of.his.in-tervertebral disc, from being thrown to the: ground by the violent jerking of the head of his imprisoned cow, which he and two other persons were attempting to extricate' from a ditch, some four feet wide and three and one-half feet deep, by defendant dug, and negligently left…