Hatley v. MOBIL PIPE LINE COMPANY

BARNES, Justice:

This appeal involves an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a lineman in dismantling a telephone line on an easement owned by Mobil Pipe Line Company, hereinafter referred to as “Mod-bil” or “defendant”. Mobil’s said easement traversed a distance of some 90 miles between Oklahoma City and this State’s Drumright-Yale area. On it, Mobil installed its private telephone system many years ago and thereafter used the system in connection with its pipe line operations. Later, when the Turner Turnpike was constructed more than twenty years ago, portions of the…