Ohio Power Co. v. Bauer

On November 14, 1951, appellees granted an easement to the Ohio Power Company, appellant, “to construct, erect, operate and maintain a line of towers and wires for the purpose of transmitting electric or other power, in, on, along, over, through or across” their farm property-

Towers were constructed and three 345-kilovolt wires were hung across the property. This “Central Muskingum Line” carries approximately 950,000 kilowatts of power and serves approximately 150,000 customers in western and central Ohio.

The conflict between the parties has boiled intermittently since 1975 when the power…