Essex Storage Electric Co. v. Victory Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of the Public Service Commission Essex County. The opinion states the case. Where two parcels of land owned by the same owner are separated by land owned by another, they cannot be considered as one tract where the owner does not possess the right to cross the intervening land, notwithstanding a possible unity of use. 2 Nichols, Eminent Domain, 743; Pennsylvania Co. v. Pennsylvania, etc., B. Co., 151 Pa. 334, 25 Atl. 107; Schmidt v. City of Milwaukee,…
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Appeal from an order of the Public Service Commission Essex County. The opinion states the case. Where two parcels of land owned by the same owner are separated by land owned by another, they cannot be considered as one tract where the owner does not possess the right to cross the intervening land, notwithstanding a possible unity of use. 2 Nichols, Eminent Domain, 743; Pennsylvania Co. v. Pennsylvania, etc., B. Co., 151 Pa. 334, 25 Atl. 107; Schmidt v. City of Milwaukee, 149 Wis. 330, 135 N. W. 883; Cameron v. Chicago, etc., B. Co., 42 Minn. 75, 43 N. W. 785; Currie V. Waverly, etc., B. Co.,…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is a proceeding brought to the Public Service Commission pursuant to G. L. 4984, wherein the plaintiff seeks to condemn, for the creation of a storage reservoir, certain property of the defendant in the town of Yictory. Both parties appealed (or attempted to appeal) to this Court pursuant to G. L. 5038.
An appeal from the final order of the Public Service Com*443mission is to be taken and entered in this Court in the same manner as a chancery appeal. G-. L. 5038. The latter requires a written motion filed with the clerk within twenty days from the date of the decree appealed from. G-. L.…
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