McTaggart v. Montana Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statute requiring power utility to relocate power lines from previously acquired utility easement at its expense upon landowner request effected a constitutional taking
• holding that subject statute was a valid exercise of police power but nonetheless effected a constitutional taking requiring just compensation
• efficient use of water and irrigation of farmland is public use

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