Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. v. Diamond Fuel Co.

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• holding that “the fee simple owner of the servient tenement is an indispensable party” in “any litigation involving the easement” that will adversely affect the owner’s “right to the use and enjoyment of his property”
• defining an indispensable party as “one whose rights are so directly connected with and affected by litigation that he must be a party of record to protect such rights”
• in litigation involving an easement, the fee simple owner of a servient tenement is an indispensable party
• in litigation involving an easement, the fee simple owner of a servient tenement is an indispensable party
• in litigation involving an easement, the fee simple owner of a servient tenement is an indispensable party
• in litigation involving an easement, the fee simple owner of. a servient tenement is an indispensable party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).