Starr Farms, Inc. v. Southwestern Electric Power Co.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Three companion suits, consolidated below, were brought by the appellants in the Washington Chancery Court, seeking to enjoin Southwestern Electric Power Company, a licensed foreign corporation, from trespassing upon the plaintiffs lands and to recover a total of $175,000 as damages for past trespasses. SWEPCO defended its entry upon the plaintiffs lands as having been made under the authority of circuit court orders by which SWEPCO’s wholly owned subsidiary, a domestic corporation, had condemned a right of way for the construction of electrical transmission lines…