SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO. v. LYNCH

No. 18-0768.

595 S.W.3d 678 (2020)

SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Kenneth LYNCH, Tommy Batchelor, and Twant Wilson, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: February 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Thomas Carroll IV , Rickey Lawrence Faulkner , Coghlan Crowson, LLP, 1127 Judson Rd., Suite 211, Longview, TX 756011-5193, Marnie A. McCormick , Stephanie M. Green , Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP, P.O. Box 1149, Austin, TX 78767-1149, for Petitioner.

Charles David Glass , Smith Weber, L.L.P., 5505 Plaza Drive, Texarkana, TX 75503, Donald W. Capshaw , Capshaw Green, PLLC, 4405 Summerhill Rd., 2801 Richmond Rd., #46, Texarkana, TX 75503-2737, Tiffany Gilbert , Fidelity National Law Group, 14785 Preston Rd. Ste. 1150, Dallas, TX 75254-7876, for Respondents.


This dispute centers on the width of several general easements that an electric company acquired from the respondent landowners' predecessors-in-title in 1949. The petitioner electric company argues that the easements are general easements with no fixed width, while the landowners contend that the...

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