Lenik Condemnation Case

Opnion bt

Mr. Justice Bok,

The Philadelphia Electric Company, having power of eminent domain, condemned certain interests of Mr. and Mrs. Lenik in a strip of their land in Delaware County so that the company might string its wires. It did not take the fee but only a right of way 700 feet long and 150 feet wide, plus trimming rights in two other strips, each 50 feet wide and lying along each side of the right of way so that it could prevent growing things from damaging the wires.

The parties failed to reach agreement about purchase and viewers were appointed on the company’s petition to assess…