Country Estates, Inc. v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

This case was commenced as two separate condemnation actions brought by plaintiff-appellee against each appellant to appropriate an easement of right-of-way across appellants’ property in order that appellee can construct and maintain electrical transmission lines thereon. These actions were consolidated in May of 1969 in this Court on motion of the appellants pursuant to then existing Rule 2-1. 1

The appellee sought to appropriate an easement 200 feet in width and 1,318 feet in length across Defendant Corazzo’s property. It also sought to appropriate an easement on Appellant Country Estate’s…