Medina Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Reagan

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was filed by Medina Electric-Cooperative, Inc., to condemn a right of' way containing 15.655 acres of land, for the-purpose of erecting and maintaining a transmission line across a 4700-acre ranch and farm owned by Cecil Reagan. The right of' way measured forty feet in width across. Reagan’s property, except for about 7,000' feet along the south boundary line where-only a twenty-foot wide strip was taken.

The only point in controversy at the trial was ever the amount of damages, which was. *89resolved by a jury. The jury found that the pre-condemnation value of the…