Leonard C. Lacy v. United States of America, Upon the Relation and for the Use of the Tennessee Valley Authority

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a summary judgment entered pursuant to the District Court’s opinion reported in 116 F.Supp. 15. The summary judgment required appellant to remove certain structures placed by him under or in close proximity to a transmission line constructed and maintained across his property by the Tennessee Valley Authority (hereinafter called TVA), as agent for the Government, and enjoined their further maintenance within fifty feet of the center line of the transmission line.

On July 10, 1946, appellant’s predecessor in title, one J. W. Turner, granted to TVA a…