City of Tulsa v. Lloyd

As the parties hereto occupy the same relative positions they occupied in the trial court, they will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant.

Plaintiff, desiring to obtain an easement 20 feet wide and more than one-half mile long across the property of defendant for the purpose of laying a sewer line, instituted proceedings under .the law of eminent domain to procure the same. The question, as to defendant’s damages was submitted to a jury in the district court of Tulsa county, which fixed such damages at the sum of 81,000, and from the judgment for said amount plaintiff prosecutes this…