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Month: February 2015

Jury Awards Landowner $393,165 in Condemnation Case

Luke Ellis, Justin Hodge, and Jacob Merkord won a Wichita County jury trial regarding the reduction in value caused by a 345kV high-voltage electric transmission line easement.  The dispute began in December 2011 when Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC sued a Wichita...

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Livestock Weekly – San Angelo, Texas

Photo of the "Kelo House" in Kelo v. City of New London. [Ellis] has been fighting for landowners who have had their property taken by the government since 2009. Ellis told listeners that for years before Kelo, attorneys like himself labored in relative obscurity...

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