Hanks v. Gulf States Utilities Company

BARHAM, Justice.

A Third Circuit Court of Appeal judgment affirmed the trial court’s award of $5000.00 in damages based upon a holding that Gulf States Utilities Company, which had acquired a servitude over the plaintiffs’ land in 1949, had trespassed upon the property of the plaintiffs in 1962 by modification of the supporting structure of an electric power line. 210 So.2d 345.

In 1949 plaintiffs’ ancestor in title granted to Gulf States Utilities Company the following servitude:

“ * * * the right, privilege and servitude to enter upon and to erect, construct, extend, maintain, inspect,…