United Fuel Gas Co. v. Clarke

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This action was filed by appellant to condemn a right of way across the southeast portion of appellees’ farm for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining a pipe line for the transmission of gas in and through the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The jury awarded appellees $1,192.50 as the reasonable market value of the easements taken (approximately three acres) and the further sum of $6000 as damages resulting to appellees’ adjacent 1125-acre tract.

Several grounds are urged for reversal of the judgment, one of which is that the verdict is based on incompetent and…