Texas Electric Service Co. v. Nelon

OPINION

This case presents an appeal from a condemnation award entered against a public utility in a proceeding resulting from the construction of Comanche Peak generating plant, the first nuclear-powered generating plant in Texas. Appellant, Texas Electric Service Company, asserts excessiveness in the jury’s award for damages to the market value of the remainder of the owner’s land as a result of the condemnation of the strip of land for railroad easement in that it was improperly influenced by testimony of fear of purported nuclear danger.

The appeal is based upon “no evidence” and…