Carroll Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Benson

Jack Holt, Jr., Justice.

The issue presented is whether the appellant, Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation (hereafter “Carroll Electric”), had a right pursuant to a 1962 easement to extend certain existing power lines across the western portion of appellees’, Joe and Amelia Benson (hereafter “the Bensons”), property or was required to acquire a new easement. We hold that the trial court erred in determining that Carroll Electric could not extend this power line under a 1962 easement but remand to the trial court for its determination of the reasonableness of the route chosen for the line.

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