South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Ermis

NYE, Justice.

This was a proceeding for condemnation of an easement for an electric transmission line. South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc., appellant herein, condemned a fifty-foot easement over and across the farm of V. A. Ermis and wife, for the purpose of erecting, operating and maintaining an electrical transmission line. The case was tried in the County Court to a jury. The only disputed issue before this Court on appeal concerns the damages to the remainder of the land not taken by the easement condemned.

Ermis owned an 88.23 acre farm less than a mile northwest of the city limits of…