Sun Oil Co. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

GRIM, District Judge.

As part of its business of producing and marketing large quantities of petroleum products plaintiff, the Sun Oil Company, maintains a fleet of ocean going tank vessels which go to and from Texas and its pier oil the west bank of the Delaware river at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Defendant, the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, has installed and has maintained a twelve inch pipe line across and under the Delaware river immediately south of plaintiff’s pier at Marcus Hook. This is a part of a pipe line used for conveying natural gas from Texas to New Jersey and the…