Slater v. Shell Oil Company

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit.

In 1915 plaintiff and her husband granted to a corporation, the Valley Pipe Line Company, an easement in the nature of a right of way, under the terms of which the corporation was permitted to install and maintain a pipe line across the ranch of the grantors in Contra Costa County. Mr. Slater has since died, the plaintiff now being the sole owner of the property. In the instrument granting the easement the grantee and its successors and assigns were given the right to install an additional line or lines across the ranch upon payment for each such…