AMERICAN TEL. & TEL. CO. v. PROFFITT


903 S.W.2d 309 (1995)

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. William I. PROFFITT and Betty Jean Proffitt, Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Section.

Permission to Appeal Denied July 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Knox Walkup, Jack W. Robinson, Jr., M. Taylor Harris, Jr., Gullett, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, Nashville, Ronald W. Jenkins, Herndon, Coleman, Brading & McKee, Johnson City, for petitioner-appellee.

C. Todd Chapman and K. Kidwell King, Jr., King & King, Greeneville, for respondents-appellants.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter and Cynthia L. Paduch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, for State of Tennessee.


OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action for condemnation to lay an underground fiber optic telephone cable, the Trial Judge ruled in plaintiff's favor and the issue of damages has been tried to a jury which awarded defendants $3,780.00.

Defendants have appealed.

Defendants' land is in the route of AT & T's fiber optic communications cable running from Asheville, North Carolina to Knoxville, Tennessee. The cable was to be installed...

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