MASSON v. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO.

Nos. 52,167, 52,188

7 Kan. App. 2d 344 (1982)

642 P.2d 113

JAMES B. MASSON, II, et al., Appellees, v. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Appellant. FRED A. FREY, et al., Appellees, v. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Petition for review denied May 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell L. Smithson, of Kansas City, Missouri, and John H. Murray, of Murray & Tillotson, Chartered, of Leavenworth, for the appellant.

L.D. McDonald, Jr., and Kathleen M. Rhoades, of McDonald & Dykes, of Overland Park, and Edward J. Chapman, Jr., of Leavenworth, for the appellees.

Before FOTH, C.J., REES and SPENCER, JJ.


FOTH, C.J.:

These are separate appeals by Kansas City Power and Light Co. from jury verdicts in two condemnation proceedings. In each KCP&L acquired a 160-foot easement across a rural tract for a 345 KV overhead transmission line. The two cases were consolidated because a primary issue in each was the extent to which fear of high voltage transmission lines could properly enter into the computation of damages for the taking of an easement for such a line. That...

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