Webb v. Knox County Transmission Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County. — Hon. Yon A. Huffaker, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hall
In these cases the effort of the Knox County Transmission Company to exercise the right of eminent domain is challenged.
This company was organized nnder the general corporation lairs of Tennessee, and more especially under chapter 144, Acts of 1901, chapter 151, Acts of 1909, and chapter 127, Acts of 1909.
*426The defendants, D. C. Webb and J. N. Barger, are adjoining property owners, over whose lands the company is seeking to condemn a right of Avay for the erection of an electric power line. The company filed separate petitions against these defendants, seeking to have these rights of way over…
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