Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Robinson

On August 21st and 22nd, 1926, the defendants in error E. D. Robinson and Odell Mason (plaintiffs below) were the owners of a crop of growing corn on Powell’s Island, a fertile is- laud of about ten or twelve acres, in Caney Fork River in Smith county, about sixty-nine miles by river below Rock Island, where the plaintiff in error, a public service corporation, maintained a hydro-electric power plant, including a dam across Caney Fork River just below the mouth of Collins River. On the evening and night of August 21st, and on August 22nd the island containing the crop of corn was overflowed…