Georgia Power Co. v. Redman

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The condemnor appeals from a verdict of $11,930 awarded for the taking of an easement, in 10.51 acres of land in Butts County for power lines. Nine lines one and a half inches in diameter and carrying a half million volts are involved and there was a great deal of testimony relating to consequential damages to the remaining 160 acres of land. Value estimates of the condemnor hovered around $3,000; those of the condemnee ranged between $24,000 and a figure over double that amount. The verdict was within the range of the evidence and supported by inferences from it.…