East Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Rand

PALMORE, Judge.

The condemnor appeals as excessive an award of $4,100 for an electric transmission line easement 100 feet in width extending a distance of 1799 feet across a 198-acre tract of farm land in Trimble County.

The terms of the easement are the ones usually involved in right-of-way acquisitions by rural electric cooperatives. Five poles, one of which is supported by anchors and guy wires, have been placed on the tract. One of them is located in a long narrow tobacco field which is crossed laterally by the wires, and this tobacco field is the nub of the case.

The tract in question has a…