Rockingham County Light Power Co. v. Hobbs.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition, for an appraisal of tbe damages for tbe taking of certain rights in the defendant’s land. Facts found by Young, J., at the October term, 1903, of the superior court. The defendant excepted to the court’s ruling that the plaintiff was entitled to maintain the petition, and the question was transferred.
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The plaintiff is a voluntary corporation, formed under the general law (P. S., c. 147) for the purpose of “ manufacturing, creating, furnishing, and selling for lighting, manufacturing, heating, transportation, propulsion of cars, machines, and engines, and for all mechanical, commercial, and business purposes, electricity and gas and all other illuminants and motive powers: to set poles and stretch wires to conduct and transmit the same, and to install and lay all necessary means or instrumentalities for conducting, storing, and transmitting the same.” It is located at Portsmouth, and its…
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