American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Proffitt

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action for condemnation to lay an underground fiber optic telephone cable, the Trial Judge ruled in plaintiffs favor and the issue of damages has been tried to a jury which awarded defendants $3,780.00.

Defendants have appealed.

Defendants’ land is in the route of AT & T’s fiber optic communications cable running from Asheville, North Carolina to Knoxville, Tennessee. The cable was to be installed essentially along the same route as several above-ground transmission lines already established by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

With respect to defendants’ land, TVA…