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Real Estate/Development

Jun. 23, 2012

Jury orders utility to pay property owners

In a fiercely litigated eminent domain case, a jury ordered San Diego Gas & Electric to pay a pair of local property owners $8 million for seizing a chunk of their 115 acres for a power line between Imperial and San Diego counties.


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In a fiercely litigated eminent domain case, a jury ordered San Diego Gas & Electric to pay a pair of local property owners $8 million for seizing a chunk of their 115 acres for a power line extending between Imperial and San Diego counties.


The panel dismissed the utility's argument that the taking was worth $701,400 and agreed with landowners Arnold Schmidt and Luis Naranjo's clai...

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