Adirondack Power & Light Corp. v. Prodger

A commissioner in the above-entitled proceeding, while acting as such, became and testified as an expert or value witness for the defendants in another similar proceeding, brought by plaintiff for the same purpose, namely the acquirement of lands to be used in the construction of an electrical transmission line from Spier Falls on the Hudson river to plaintiff’s substation at Rotterdam in Schenectady county, and plaintiff is asking for his removal on the ground that he is not disinterested within the meaning of the law. The commissioner states that he was not conscious of any impropriety in…