State ex rel. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. v. Superior Court

This action was instituted as a condemnation proceeding, upon the petition of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company, a corporation. The purposes for which the corporation is organized are extensive and are both public and private. For a number of years it has been, and is still, engaged in carrying out those purposes. When this proceeding was commenced, the corporation was engaged in constructing a hydro-electric plant on Baker river to produce additional electric power, estimated at 18,000 *309K. W. In order to transmit this power it is necessary to construct and use a transmission line or lines…