Illinois Power & Light Corp. v. Peterson

The Illinois Power and Light Corporation on June 12, 1925, presented its petition to the judge of the county court of Warren county to condemn a site for a suspension tower within and an easement across a tract of land owned by Arthur Peterson, for the construction, maintenance, operation and repair of a high-power electric transmission line from the dam across the Mississippi river at Keokuk, Iowa, through the counties of Hancock, Henderson, Warren and Knox to the city of Galesburg, in this State. The petitioner alleged that it was a domestic corporation engaged in business as a public…