Allison v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.

Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company (“Arkansas”) filed a condemnation petition to acquire a 40-foot gas pipeline right-of-way across the Allisons’ timber land. Arkansas objected to and appealed the award of the commissioners to the trial court. The Alli-sons, in response to the appeal, asserted a claim for trespass seeking recovery of additional damages for Arkansas’ acts of clearing an additional ten-foot strip of timber and pasture grass and pushing timber, tree roots and debris off the right-of-way onto the Allisons’ land. The trial court overruled Arkansas’ various objections to the trespass…