Mountain Valley Pipeline used the power of eminent domain to take land on Bent Mountain owned by the Terry family. A federal appeals court has restored a higher dollar verdict for the taking that a federal judge had cut in half.
Federal judge steeply reduces the amount of money a Bent Mountain family will be compensated for land taken by Mountain Valley PIpeline in 2018 via eminent domain.
A jury ordered Mountain Valley Pipeline, which used its power of eminent domain to condemn the land, to pay the sum following a four-day trial in federal court.
Mountain Valley Pipeline used its legal power of eminent domain to take part of a 560-acre tract Bent Mountain owned by the Terry family four years ago. How much it