Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. Conger

AYRES, Judge.

This is an expropriation proceeding by which plaintiff, a public-service corporation, seeks to obtain a right of way for the construction and completion of a pipeline to transport natural gas from plaintiff’s wells in the Elm Grove Field of Bossier Parish to its Arsenal Hill Plant in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, a distance of approximately 31 miles, for use in the generation and distribution of electricity to the general public.

To plaintiff’s action, defendants interposed exceptions of no cause and of no right of action based primarily on the propositions:

1. The…