Scott v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.

Scott and wife sued Columbia Gulf Transmission Company and J. P. Neill Construction Company for damages for acts done by defendants in constructing a natural gas transmission line across their two farms.

The damage to the farms was described in the declaration as follows:

“Tract No. 1(1) Took for right of way purposes a right of way in excess of that granted by the Plaintiffs, in some places as much as one hundred sixteen (116) feet, or as much as fifty (50) feet more than agreed upon.(2) Destroyed the Plaintiffs’ growing crop over the sixty-six (66) feet right of way agreed to, as well as…