Jones v. Tri-State Electric Cooperative

Head, Justice.

The trial judge properly construed the “expansion” provision of the contract between the Tennessee Electric Power Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority, entered into on May 12, 1939, (and under which the defendants claim as successors in title), as limited to such “expansion” of the defendants’ telephone lines as might be effectuated on existing electric poles of the Authority. The contention of the defendants that the “expansion” provision extended to poles not in existence, and to rights of way not owned or acquired by the Authority at the time of the contract, can not be…