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DUCK RIVER ELECTRIC, ETC. v. CITY OF MANCHESTER

529 S.W.2d 202 (1975)

DUCK RIVER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION, Appellant, v. CITY OF MANCHESTER, Tennessee, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 15, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr., Gullett, Steele, Sanford, Robinson & Merritt, Nashville, Edward F. Gordon, Bobo, Gordon & Grissom, Shelbyville, for appellant.

Charles E. Griffith, III, Griffith & Stokes, Nashville, H. Thomas Parsons, City Atty., Manchester, for appellee.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

These two civil actions, consolidated for the purposes of appeal, raise two questions, viz:

1. Does the City of Manchester have the right to acquire, by eminent domain, so much of the electric system of Duck River Electric Membership Corporation as is within the boundaries of the city? 2. Assuming the existence of the right, what is the proper measure of damages?

I.

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