Ashland Oil & Refining Co. v. State

This appeal involves the right of an oil company to recover the costs of relocation of its pipeline laid in the bed of privately-owned land subject to a town right of way, the roadbed having been appropriated by the State in eminent domain for a State highway. It is concluded that the courts below correctly determined that the claimant was not entitled to recover such costs, as distinguished from the value, probably . inconsequential, of the easements that the oil company had obtained from the abutting owners who had held title to the roadbed.

Chestnut Ridge Road has been maintained and…