Southern Indiana Power Co. v. Cook

Appellant is a corporation organized under the provisions of the act of 1907 for the purpose of manufacturing and selling electric current for light and power. Acts 1907 p. 207, §§5074-5083 Burns 1914. It filed its complaint in the circuit court to condemn the right to overflow appellee Cook’s land and to have assessed the damages thereto which had resulted from the overflowage of such lands by the backwater created by a dam for appellant’s hydro-electric power plant which it had located in and on White River at Williams, Lawrence County. This proceeding was taken under the eminent domain act…