Tulsa Petroleum Corporation v. Westmoreland

HURST, J. S. P.

Westmoreland, on December 19, 1933, instituted this action against the Tulsa Petroleum Corporation and the Limestone Oil & Gas Company to recover damages for their laying and maintaining a two-inch oil pipe line across the south end of his quarter section of land for a distance of 80 rods. The land lay north of and adjoining a section line highway running east and west. Approximately ten years prior to this action plaintiff sold a right of way to an electric company for a high line across this land parallel to the, ^highway, and, about a year later, removed his fence from the…