Texas Electric Service Company v. Seth Campbell

Texas Electric Service Company, petitioner, an electric utility company, instituted condemnation proceedings to obtain an easement of a 50-foot right-of-way across respondents land for the purpose of constructing high-voltage electric transmission lines to serve territories and communities of West Texas. The respondents land consisted of approximately 21 1/2 sections (13,670 acres) of land in Winkler County, divided by two highways, Highway 302 from Kermit to Odessa and Highway 105 from Kermit to Andrews. The area between the two highways across which the easement extended embraced approximately 4,120 acres. The 50-foot right-of-way comprising a total of 14.88 acres, extended some two miles across respondents land.