Permann v. Knife River Coal Mining Co.

KNUDSON, Judge.

Permann brought this action to restrain the Knife River Coal Mining Co. (hereinafter designated Knife River) from maintaining an electric transmission line upon the Northwest Quarter of Section 12, Township 143, Range 88, in Mercer County, North Dakota, on the ground that the original easement holder, the Oliver-Mercer Electric Cooperative, had, on April 17, 1963, permanently discontinued the operation of the power line prior to the assign-, ment by the Cooperative to Knife River on May 6, 1963, of such easement; and that the power line interfered with the operation of the…