Alabama Power Co. v. Keystone Lime Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Shelby County Court. Heard before Hon. E. S. Lyman. ■ Proceedings by the Alabama Power Company to- condemn a right of way for the erection and maintenance of towers, poles, and wire lines for the transmission of electricity on and across the lands of the Keystone Lime Company. Prom a judgment awarding damages, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
By this proceeding the appellant sought to condemn a strip of land 100 feet in width across the lands of appellee as a right of way upon which to erect and maintain towers, poles, or wire lines for the transmission of electricity. After the court made the order condemning the above strip, and before the trial in which the damages were assessed by the jury, the appellant, as under our Constitution and statutes it had the right to do, placed its towers, poles, and conductors on the strip, and is now using it for the purposes for which it was condemned. This appeal is taken,…
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