Basin Electric Power Cooperative v. Lang

This case is a modern day version of Goliath slaying David. Goliath being Basin Electric Corporation, a corporation, plaintiff and appellee; David being the farmers whose land is affected, defendants and appellants; the defendants, Farmers Home Administration, Campbell County, Elizabeth Lang, and the First National Bank of Linton, none of whom submitted briefs or appeared before this Court, are essentially spectators to this unequal struggle. The arena was Campbell County. When the struggle was over, four farmers were awarded a pitifully small recompense for Goliath’s right to have perpetual…