I've put out requests in this space in the past for our family of readers to contact me with story ideas and suggestions, and a handful have responded with a story they want to tell. Here's one: Rob Borror, owner of Robert Borror Logging in Petersburg, W.Va., received notification in early June that he was being sued by Ohio-based Columbia Gas Transmission, and was summoned to appear in court just a few days later, in Wheeling, about a three-hour drive. Without time to get an attorney, Borror was forced to represent himself. Borror's is a small operation, consisting of just him and his son, cutting big hardwoods with a chain saw. He has been working on a 150-acre tract near a place called Brushy Run, along the line that separates Grant County from Pendleton County, where he lives. Columbia has a gas transmission line that runs underneath some of that tract, and many others—he's been told the line in question runs from Louisiana to the East Coast.
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