East Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Burke

Motion for an appeal from the Wayne Circuit Court; T. A. Wilson, Judge.

East Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation obtained through condemnation proceedings an easement 1,426 feet long and 100 feet wide across an 840 acre farm belonging to Clona Burke and her husband, I. H. Burke. Three poles were set on the right of way, two of them in fence rows. The Burkes were awarded $850 in damag-es by the jury.

The Corporation contends that the award was excessive. We indicated in Tennessee Gas Transmission Company v. Teater, Ky., 252 S.W.2d 674, that examination of other cases is of little…