Schwartz v. Western Power & Gas Co., Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an appeal brought by the appellant, Western Power & Gas Co., Inc., from judgments entered in four separate condemnation cases which were consolidated and tried before a single jury. In 1968 Western instituted a condemnation action to acquire easements across certain tracts of land in Barton County, Kansas, for the transmission of electrical energy. Western in talcing the easements contemplated the construction of power lines consisting of five wires combined to carry 230,000 volts of electricity. The power lines were suspended on…