Moore v. Hope Natural Gas Co.

Lynch, Judge:

By a sealed instrument dated July 15, 1907, duly recorded Leonard Moore, for a valuable consideration paid, granted defendant, Hope Natural Gas Company, an easement over certain lands owned by him in Wetzel county, “to lay, maintain, operate and remove a pipe line for the transportation of oil and gas” from the place of production to market, “with the right of ingress and egress to and from the same”. *651Defendant agreed therein “to pay any damages which may arise to crops and fences from the laying, maintaining, operating and removing said pipe line, the damages if not mutually…