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IN RE BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANY

314 A.2d 800 (1974)

In re BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANY. In re Application for Approval of Location of Transmission Lines in the Town of Ellsworth Over Land Owned by Richard W. Whitney, Ellsworth, Maine. Law Docket No. 735. In the Matter of PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. In re Application of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company for Approval of Location of Transmission Lines in the Town of Ellsworth Over Land Owned by Richard W. Whitney, Ellsworth, Maine. Law Docket No. 735A.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

January 25, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Preti & Flaherty, Harold C. Pachios, Portland, for plaintiff.

Albert Chick Blanchard, Bangor, Horace S. Libby, Public Utilities Commission, Augusta, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

No. 735 is an appeal by the landowner from an order of the Public Utilities Commission approving a taking by eminent domain by the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company of an easement over land in Ellsworth upon which the Applicant company proposed to erect and maintain two transmission lines carrying 34.5 kilovolts (34,500 volts). The appeal raises an issue of statutory interpretation of first impression.

We sustain the appeal.

The Applicant...

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