Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county is liable to a pipeline company for expenses incurred in encasing and venting that portion of its pipeline which lies in a pre-existing easement under property acquired for the location of a new road, when neither the county nor the State Highway Department have required that the pipe be encased and vented.