BARFIELD v. SHO-ME POWER ELEC. COOPERATIVE

No. 15-2964.

852 F.3d 795 (2017)

Chase BARFIELD, Plaintiff Michael D. Biffle; Gina Biffle; Dwight K. Robertson, Plaintiffs-Appellees J. Carol Hutchens; Rowena Hutchens, Plaintiffs v. SHO-ME POWER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE; Sho-Me Technologies, LLC, Defendants-Appellants KAMO Electric Cooperative, Inc.; K-PowerNet, LLC, Defendants National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; Associated Electric Cooperative; Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Amici on Behalf of Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 29, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael James Amberg , Cecilia Fex , Kathleen Clubb Kauffman , Ackerson & Kauffman, Washington, DC, Brad A. Catlin , Henry J. Price , Ronald J. Waicukauski , Price & Waicukauski, Indianapolis, IN, Matthew A. Clement , Heidi Doerhoff Vollet , Cook & Vetter, Jefferson City, MO, Fred O'Neill , Thayer, MO, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

David Lynn Coffman , Stephen A. D'Aunoy , Christopher Martin Hohn , Mark A. Mattingly , Robert J. Wagner , W. Stanley Walch , Thompson & Coburn, Saint Louis, MO, Terry M. Evans , Andereck & Evans, Smithville, MO, Dana Lynette Kollar , Andereck & Evans, Jefferson City, MO, for Defendants-Appellants.

Jessica Healy , Tyrus H. Thompson , NRECA, Arlington, VA, Richard Theodore Ashe , Carnahan & Evans, Branson, MO, Christiaan D. Horton , John Edmund Price , Carnahan & Evans, Springfield, MO, for Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s).

Before LOKEN, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.


This case is about the scope of easements under Missouri law and the remedies if easement holders exceed their rights. Sho-Me Power Cooperative held easements to construct and operate an electric transmission line over thousands of parcels. In 1997, it decided to install fiber-optic...

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