Legal Opinion
Baucum v. Arkansas Power & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided March 11, 1929PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
This suit was brought by appellee, Arkansas Power & Light Company, to condemn a right-of-way for an electric power transmission line across lands belonging to appellants. There was a verdict and judgment in appellants’ favor for $3,500, from which is this appeal.
Appellants! own a plantation consisting o,f 1,800 acres, of whiqh 1,500 are in 'cultivation, and the power line runs diagonally across the plantation.
The court gave, over appellants’ objection, the following instruction:
“The damages to which the defendants are entitled in this case are the difference between the fair cash market value…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Fort Smith & Van Buren District v. ScottSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
- Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. WalshSupreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- Calor Oil & Gas Co. v. FranzellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1908
- Gurdon & Fort Smith Railroad v. VaughtSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1911
- Madisonville H. & E. R. R. v. RossCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1907
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3Cited by27 opinions
- McInnis v. Brown County Water Improvement Dist. No. 1Court of Appeals of Texas · 1931
- North Carolina State Highway & Public Works Commission v. BlackSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1954
- Lazenby v. Ark. State Highway CommissionSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1960
- Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. MorrisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1953
- Loyd v. Southwest Arkansas Utilities Corp.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1979
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