United Fuel Gas Co. v. Rowe

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Wilson D. Rowe et al. were awarded $3,100 in damages by a judgment against United Fuel Gas Company arising from the laying of a gas pipeline across their property. On appeal the instructions are attacked.

By their complaint as amended, appel-lees claimed that in the laying of a gas pipeline the appellant exceeded its rights and “through the wanton and malicious acts of the defendant (appellant), by its agents, servants and employees not in the reasonable exercise of its easement rights therein and thereunder” damaged appellees’ residence, bottom land, trees, crops, and fence.…