Hayden v. Grand River Mutual Telephone Corp.

SPERRY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment against it for actual damages for the unlawful taking of a telephone line right of way across plaintiffs’ property, in the sum of $600.00, and for punitive damages in the sum of $700.00.

In 1962 plaintiffs acquired the title to an improved rectangular tract of land, 11 rods east and west and 10 rods north and south. It is located at the junction of Route A and Highway 71, near the village of Pumpkin Center, in Nodaway County, Missouri. Defendant is a mutual telephone corporation, and operates an extensive telephone business in…