Legal Opinion
In Re Bangor Hydro-Electric Company
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided January 25, 1974No. Law Docket 735; Law Docket 735APublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEATHERBEE, Justice.
No. 735 is an appeal by the landowner from an order of the Public Utilities Commission approving a taking by eminent domain by the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company of an easement over land in Ells-worth upon which the Applicant company proposed to erect and maintain two transmission lines carrying 34.5 kilovolts (34,-500 volts). The appeal raises an issue of statutory interpretation of first impression.
We sustain the appeal.
The Applicant, Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, is a corporation organized under the general law of the State of Maine for the purpose of making,…
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