Reed v. Central Maine Power Co.

This action is based on Revised Statutes, Chap. 109, Secs. 9 and 11.

The plaintiffs are owners of land in the town of Woolwich, bounded in part by a highway. The defendant corporation, a utility discharging a public service in owning and operating a plant, the product of which it distributes to customers for electric lighting, set poles and fixtures for the support of electrical wires upon, along, and over such highway, in front of the house on the abutting premises. At that time, (December, 1931), the house was untenanted. There is testimony that it had been occupied during summer seasons in…