Grimes v. Corpus Christi Transmission Co.

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

DORSEY, Justice.

Upon consideration of the motion for rehearing filed in this case, which involves a utility’s right to lay high pressure gas pipelines under a highway right-of-way when the original easement grant was limited to roadway purposes, we overrule the motion, withdraw our original opinion rendered February 6, 1992, and substitute the following opinion.

The Grimeses’ land abuts a state highway built on an easement granted to the State by the Grimeses’ predecessor in title. That easement recites that it is “for the purpose of opening, constructing, and…