Legal Opinion
Michael Biffle v. Sho-Me Power Electric, etc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 29, 2017No. 15-2964PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENTON, Circuit Judge.
This case is about the scope of easements under Missouri law and the remedies if easement holders exceed their rights. Sho-Me Power Cooperative held easements to construct and operate an electric transmission line over thousands of parcels. In 1997, it decided to install fiber-optic cables alongside its electrical lines. Sho-Me used the cables for internal communications. Sho-Me assigned the cables’ excess, capacity to a separate company, Sho-Me Technologies, LLC (Tech), to operate a public-serving commercial telecommunications business. A putative class of owners of…
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