Service Pipe Line Co. v. Ruder

Service Pipe Line Company, a corporation engaged in the interstate transportation of oil, instituted this eminent domain action to acquire a perpetual easement in the defendants’ land. The circuit court of Will County granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the action, and the plaintiff has appealed directly to this court. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 47, par. 12.

The plaintiff does no intrastate business in Illinois. Its pipe lines in this State transport crude oil from other States to refineries here, and to connecting systems that carry the oil eastward. It proposed to construct, on the…