Kentucky West Virginia Power Company v. Leslie

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing-

In September, 1920, appellant through an agent entered into a contract with appellee and her husband, who was then living, whereby the couple agreed to convey to appellant an easement through their farm in Pike county for the purpose of erecting a power transmission line, and appellant agreed to pay appellee, the sum of $5.00 for each pole erected on the land. In the following March, the appellee’s husband died. The line having been erected, the same agent in the spring of 1922 again visited appellee, presented to her a formal deed for the…