Central Power & Light Co. v. Purvis

The Central Power Light Company is a public utilities corporation engaged in furnishing electric power and light to users in Cameron and other counties. In extending its power lines to consumers, it purchased a right of way over a certain 40-acre farm in Cameron county, then owned by one Cromack. At the same time, and in part consideration for the granting of the right of way to it, the company agreed to "furnish electric power" to Cromack as the owner of the land, as evidenced by the following letter, dated September 24, 1927, and acknowledged for registration and recorded by the company…