Shelton v. M & a Electric Power Cooperative

STONE, Judge.

On the theory of inverse condemnation, plaintiffs Clay C. Shelton and Ruby M. Shelton, his wife, instituted this action at law on August 3, 1967, against defendant M & A Electric Power Cooperative, a corporation, by the filing of their petition for damages allegedly sustained by reason of defendant’s “conversion and appropriation” in 1961 of “a power line easement and right-of-way” across plaintiffs’ 60-acre farm about 14 miles north of Kennett in Dunklin County, Missouri, and the construction and maintenance of an electric transmission line over and along that right-of-way. In…