McLemore v. Alabama Power Company

*23COLEMAN, Justice.

The landowner appeals from a judgment awarding compensation and damages for lands condemned and acquired in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of a proposed dam, canal, and electric power plant on the Coosa River in Elmore County.

As we understand it, the owner’s parcel ■of land before the taking contained 178.9 acres and after the taking contained 78.3 .acres. On the basis of these figures, the ■condemnor acquired approximately 100 acres. We understand that about 47 acres of the land taken was woodland and the remainder was open land.

The probate…