Rockford Electric Co. v. Browman

Appellant, the Rockford Electric Company, a public utility corporation furnishing electricity, sought to condemn certain lands in which appellee Albertina Browman had the life use and appellee Fred Browman owned the remainder after 'the life estate, for use in connection with the construction and maintenance of a high-power transmission line. Appellees filed a cross-petition asking for damages to adjacent land not taken and setting up that such land was suitable and peculiarly adapted for aviation purposes and could be used as an aviation field or airport, and if the transmission system were…