Mutual Union Telegraph Co. v. Katkamp

This was a proceeding on the part of the Mutual Union Telegraph Company, under the Eminent Domain act of this • State, to condemn a right of way for telegraph poles across the land of Adolph Katkamp, being described in the petition as a strip of land eighteen inches wide and three feet deep every one hundred and fifty feet from the point of beginning, etc., of sufficient width to erect telegraph poles and fixtures thereon. The damages were assessed at $38.50, and the company appealed to this court.

It appeared that the telegraph poles were to be set along the line of the right of way of the…