Hencken v. Bethlehem Municipal Water Authority

Opinion by

Me. Justice Linn,

This appeal is by the defendant, Bethlehem Municipal Water Authority, from a judgment in eminent domain proceedings for the condemnation of part of a large tract of land, owned by plaintiffs, in Towamensing Township, Carbon County, for the construction of defendant’s Wild Creek Dam. On June 8, 1939, appellant adopted a resolution appropriating plaintiff’s land “for the purpose of erecting and constructing [a] dam, lay pipe lines, and constructing and erecting other buildings for the operation of a water system . . .” and filed a condemnation bond which was approved…