Property Value Decrease from Transmission Lines? Jury Says YES!

A Wichita Falls jury validated property owners’ right to collect reasonable damages when electric power lines lower the value of their land.

It boils down to a question of the value of the remainder of the land after every one agrees eminent domain is proper. 

The electric provider offered the landowner $140,000 for an easement 1.7 miles long, that bisects the landowner’s property.  The jury sided with the landowner appraiser who said the value is $393,165. 

Texas Lawyer on Oncor Electric Delivery v. Clack