TILLEY v. GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP.

No. 90-044.

587 A.2d 412 (1991)

Russell TILLEY and Helen Tilley v. GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

February 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne R. Brown of Perry & Schmucker, South Burlington, for plaintiffs-appellees.

David T. Austin of Sheehey Brue Gray & Furlong, Burlington, for defendant-appellant.

Before ALLEN, C.J., GIBSON and MORSE, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


MORSE, Justice.

Plaintiffs, South Burlington property owners, sued defendant Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP) to prevent GMP from running additional power lines along an existing easement across their property. The trial court granted plaintiffs a permanent injunction preventing construction. The court found that when the easement was initially created in 1961, a GMP representative, in conversation with Helen Tilley and Russell Tilley's father, Rollin, had assured...

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