Boring v. Metropolitan Edison Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

This is an appeal by the Metropolitan Edison Company (hereinafter Condemnor) from the judgment entered in the court below upon a jury’s verdict awarding $25,000 in damages to Paul L. Boring and Mary M. Boring (hereinafter Condemnees) in an eminent domain action.

On November 22, 1965, the Condemnor condemned a right of way across the unimproved 43.46 acre tract of the Condemnees for the purpose of erecting thereon an electrical transmission line. The Condemnees’ land is located in close proximity to Pinchot State Park, a resort attracting large numbers of patrons to…