Emmons v. Utilities Power Co.

At the trial it was claimed by the plaintiff, and denied by the defendant, that the plaintiff’s property had a market value as an undeveloped water power. The defendant conceded that it was the plaintiff’s right to establish such a value, if she could, by proof that her property was capable of development wholly upon her own land, but objected to the admission of evidence of its market value for development in conjunction with other properties, or with other power which could be utilized only through the intervention of a third party. The court accepted the defendant’s theory, on which,…