Kentucky & West Virginia Power Co. v. Crawford

Opinion op the 'Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Appellee, Ed Crawford, and his brothers, Leslie Crawford and Will Crawford, are the joint owners of a tract of land in Carter county, which they inherited from their father. On December 4, 1926, Ed Crawford and his wife executed an instrument of writing by the terms of which they granted to appellant, Kentucky & West Virginia Power Company, the right to construct, operate, and maintain an electric-power line and telephone and telegraph lines across the described land, in consideration of $10 for each pole erected thereon. In the writing executed by…