A five-person jury decided Walton Funeral Home should be compensated roughly $350,000 for a Dominion Energy permanent easement on its property for high voltage power lines.
The verdict came Thursday at the end of a four-day eminent domain trial in Virginia Beach Circuit Court with Judge Scott Flax presiding. The trial was held because the funeral home owner and the power company had been unable to reach an agreement on just compensation for three high voltage power lines that cross over the property.
“Dominion handled this terribly,” Frank Walton, who owns the land and operates the funeral home, said after the verdict came in. “This is a classic example of corporate greed and overreach.”…