Bouton v. Potomac Edison Co.

This case represents chapter two in the dispute between the Potomac Edison Company and Donald M. Bouton and his wife over the Company’s attempt to acquire by eminent domain an easement for the route of an overhead electric transmission line. We are asked to determine whether the Court of Special Appeals erred when it remanded the case, without affirmance or reversal, to the trial court for further proceedings on the grounds that the question of the Company’s right to condemn should not have been submitted to the jury.

Chapter one began when the Potomac Edison Company (Company) applied for a…