Kentucky Utilities Co. v. Jett

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Kentucky Utilities Company appeals from a judgment awarding the appellee landowners $10,000 damages in the taking by eminent domain of easements for electric transmission lines.

The judgment must be reversed for ex-cessiveness of damages. This case was tried prior to the decision in Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Sherrod, Ky., 367 S.W.2d 844, so there were separate awards of “taking” damages and “resulting” damages. We do not find exces-siveness in the former award, but we do in the latter.

The easements, 100 feet in width, extend a distance of 3055 feet over the…