McMILLAN CO. v. NEBRASKA ELECTRIC GENERATION

No. 39503.

224 N.W.2d 184 (1974)

192 Neb. 744

The McMILLAN CO., a corporation et al., Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. NEBRASKA ELECTRIC GENERATION and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., a Cooperative Corporation, Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

December 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quigley, Dill & Quigley, Valentine, for appellants.

Olds & Swarts, Wayne, David & Clark, Thedford, for appellees.

Heard before WHITE, C. J., and SPENCER, BOSLAUGH, McCOWN, NEWTON, CLINTON and BRODKEY, JJ.


McCOWN, Justice.

This is a condemnation case involving an easement for an electric transmission line across a portion of a sandhills cattle ranch. The jury returned a verdict of $34,616. Upon the landowner's refusal to accept an ordered remittitur of all damages in excess of $19,000, the District Court granted a motion for new trial. The landowner has appealed.

The plaintiff, McMillan Co., a corporation, is the owner of a sandhills grazing ranch located in...

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