§ 62-185. Exercise of right of eminent domain; parties' interests only taken; no survey required.
§ 62‑185. Exerciseof right of eminent domain; parties' interests only taken; no survey required.
When such telegraph, telephone, electric power or lighting companyfails on application therefor to secure by contract or agreement such right‑of‑wayfor the purposes aforesaid over the lands, privilege or easement of anotherperson or corporation; it may condemn the said interest through the proceduresof the Chapter entitled Eminent Domain.
Only the interest of such parties as are brought before the court shallbe condemned in any such proceedings, and if the right‑of‑way of arailroad or railway company sought to be condemned extends into or through morecounties than one, the whole right and controversy may be heard and determinedin one county into or through which such right‑of‑way extends.
It is not necessary for the petitioner to make any survey of or overthe right‑of‑way, nor to file any map or survey thereof, nor tofile any certificate of the location of its line by its board of directors. (1874‑5, c. 203, s. 5; Code, s. 2010; 1899, c.64, s. 2; 1903, c. 562; Rev., s. 1574; C.S., s. 1700; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1;1981, c. 919, s. 3.)