Detroit Edison Company v. Zoner

In June, 1965, the Detroit Edison Company filed a petition pursuant to CL 1948, § 486.251 et seq. as amended (Stat Ann 1968 Cum Supp § 22.1671 et seq.) for condemnation in the probate court for Oakland county, seeking to acquire a fee interest in a 200-foot wide strip of land across defendants’ property. The use avowedly planned for this strip was the construction of a major high-power transmission line to assist the power company in meeting increasing demands for electrical power in southeastern Michigan. Since 1956 there had existed between the parties a written instrument which conveyed an…