Northern States Power Co. v. Barnard

Appellant appealed from an order denying its motion for a new trial.

Appellant instituted condemnation proceedings for easements over certain lands for transmission line purposes. Plaintiff owned a 200-acre farm having buildings valued at $12,000. It is located upon the bluff of the Minnesota river valley and has some first-class land on the highland where the buildings are located and some stony and timber land on the bluffs and on the lowland. It is a good average Minnesota farm. In the proceedings appellant acquired a diagonal right of way over this farm, 2,950 feet in length. It involved…