What eminent domain actions can a utility take? My "knowledge" on that
topic is all hearsay.
I heard of a landowner who saw a company putting a pole in an empty lot
that he owned across the street from his house. He watched them set the
pole and then after the workers left he went out with a chainsaw and cut
it down because they never asked him if they could put the pole there
(so the story went). In his point of view, if he let them put the pole
there, they have permanent rights to access that spot on his property
because of eminent domain.
You may even have the right of eminent domain now.
