M & a Electric Power Cooperative v. Nesselrodt

TITUS, Judge.

Plaintiff condemned an easement across a farm owned by defendant Gee for the purpose of erecting and maintaining an electrical transmission line. Among other defendants named relative to the Gee tract was W. L. “Cowboy” Ramsey, Jr., a tenant on the farm and also sheriff of New Madrid County. A jury returned its verdict to the Circuit Court of New Madrid County assessing defendants’ damages at $15,240. Plaintiff’s motion for new trial was denied and it appealed.

The penultimate and last points relied on in plaintiff’s appeal brief are: “II The trial court erred in failing to excuse…