Byhalia pipeline case tests eminent domain law
Chris Pilcher (in a Feb. 20, 2020 file photo) points out where the proposed route of the Byhalia Connection pipeline will run near his rural DeSoto County home. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Can a private oil pipeline company force private property owners to provide access to their land? The eminent domain case involving the Byhalia Connection project will attempt to answer that question.
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Blake Fontenay
Blake Fontenay’s 27-year journalism career has taken him to many newspapers in four states. However, he had never returned to work in any of the other cities where he had been before until the opportunity to report for the Daily Memphian presented itself. He covers business for the Daily Memphian.