Case ID: w-va_96/html/0645-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      McGinnis, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHARLESTON.
    Brooke Electric Company v. Mrs. Louise Paull.
    Submitted April 29, 1924.
    Decided June 16, 1924.
    Case CoNTuomiNG.
    This case lis governed toy the principles oí law announced in the opinion this day handed down in the case of BrooJce Electric Company v. Charles E. Beall, 96 W. Ya. 637, 123 S. E. 590.
    Mtt.leb, Judse, absent.
    Error to Circuit Court, Brooke County.
    Action by the Brooke Electric Company against Mrs. Louise Paull. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
    
      Reversed.
    
    
      Ramsay & Wilhin, Brown, Jachson & Knight and Harold A. Rits, for plaintiff in error.
    P. J. McGinley, for defendant in error.
   McGinnis, Judge:

This is a proceeding by the Brooke Electric Company, a corporation, against the defendant, Mrs. Louise Pauli, to condemn a right of way over a certain strip or parcel of land owned by the defendant, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining electric lines to be used for the purpose of conveying electric power.

The action of the lower court in refusing to allow the defendant to file her proper pleas and therefore not permitting her to offer any evidence in support of them was error and the case will be reversed, the exception to the commissioner’s report sustained and the order permitting the applicant to take the property set aside and a new trial awarded.

Reversed.