IN RE PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO. ET AL.,


100 N.J. Super. 1 (1968)

241 A.2d 15

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, PURSUANT TO N.J.S.A. 48:3-17.6 FOR THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN, ETC., AFFECTING LANDS OF JOHN A. SCHROTH, ET AL. APPEAL OF CITIZENS OPPOSED TO POWER TOWERS, READINGTON CHAPTER, INC., APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, AND BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas J. Beetel argued the cause for appellant (Messrs. Hunt, Faherty & Beetel, attorneys).

Mr. Charles A. Lamby, Jr. argued the cause for respondent Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

Mr. William Gural, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey (Mr. Arthur J. Sills, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. Leon S. Wolk, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges GOLDMANN, KILKENNY and CARTON.


The opinion of the court was delivered by CARTON, J.A.D.

The Board of Public Utility Commissioners (Board) granted Public Service Electric and Gas Company (Public Service) the right to condemn certain lands for a 200-foot-wide right-of-way from a point in the Township of Holland in Hunterdon County near the Pennsylvania line to the Township of Branchburg, Somerset County. This right-of-way or corridor is to be used to construct overhead transmission facilities to...

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