Maxfield v. Gulf States Utilities Co.

HAMITER, Justice.

In the spring of 1936 the defendant, Gulf’ States Utilities Company, Inc., erected an. electric power line, 1053.5 feet in length, on and along the western edge of plaintiffs” tract of land then situated a short distance from the corporate limits of the City of *989Lake Charles. At the time both plaintiffs and defendant thought that the line, consisting of four tall poles that supported four wires strung along cross arms, was being placed in a public road known as Lake Street which adjoined and paralleled the property on its west.

After the land had been annexed to the City of…