Realty Improvement Co. v. Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co.

The questions to be considered arise in a proceeding instituted by the Consolidated Company to condemn an easement for a line of steel towers and electric wires over a strip of land southwest of Baltimore City, extending along the east side of the tracks of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad northwardly from the crossing of the Patapsco River. The landowner, the Realty Improvement Company, appeals from the award and judgment for compensation.

A motion to quash the proceeding was made by it upon three grounds. Eirst, is the ground of a lack of authorization by the Public…