Shell Pipe Line Corp. v. Lone Star Estates, Inc.

LUTHER E. HALL, Judge pro tem.

Shell Pipe Line Corporation, a common carrier, proposed to construct, maintain and operate a pipe line for the common carriage of petroleum and petroleum products from the mouth of the Mississippi River to its refinery at Norco, Louisiana.

In laying its line in St. Charles Parish the corporation found it necessary to cross defendant’s property near Luling, Louisiana, and by virtue of this suit sought to expropriate for that purpose a servitude or right of way of a 50 foot strip of land temporarily during construction of a 20 inch petroleum pipe line, reverting to…