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 them. I want to say with reference to our pipe lines, that we never endeavoured to cross any man's right of way without first seeing him about it.

Q. Still, did they not go through the railroad on their own ground, and was not this the final decision, that they had not the right to lay a pipe line where a man had reserved a right of way under the ground?

A. It was not only decided that they had no right there, but they were ordered to remove.