Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Red Jacket Consolidated Coal & Coke Co.

MilleR, Judge: •

Pursuant to chapter 42 of the Code, the plaintiff, a public service corporation, instituted in the circuit court of Mingo County, West Virginia, condemnation proceedings to take an estate less than a fee, — an easement or right of way,— over and across a tract of land owned by the defendant corporation, to be used' in the erection and maintenance of a telephone and telegraph line. Commissioners were selected and appointed according to law, who reported to the circuit court that they were of opinion that the sum of $200.00 would be a just compensation for the easement or right…