In Re Petition of Detroit Edison Co.

The petitioner is a public utility operating in the southeastern part of the State in carrying on the business of generating, distributing, and supplying electric energy for domestic and commercial uses. It has generating plants on the Detroit and St. Clair rivers and maintains a network of transmission lines, substations, and other facilities essential to the transaction of its business. The instant proceeding was commenced by petition filed in the probate court of St. Clair county seeking the condemnation of an easement over and along a strip of land 200 feet in width across certain…