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(From page I) lowed by witness after wits' ness who told of highhanded procedures followed by Vepco surveying crews and of an apparent disregard by the company for the environment and effects of lowered property values to the counties that would be crossed by the proposed lines.
AND ONE witness implied in his testimony that Vepco speaks out of both sides of its corporate mouth — that it tells one court one story, and another court another.
Carroll Savage testified at the Warrenton night hearing. He told Commission members that a tract of land he own on Fiery Run would be disected by a proposed line, which would follow a streambed in a valley. between two ridges.
During his testimony it came out that Savage, a resident of Alexandria who plans a summer house on Fiery Run, is a tax attorney and it was curious, he said, that just recently he came on a case which Vepco had brought in the Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.
SAVAGE SAID Vepco pleaded before the Court of Claims that it should be allowed to depreciate its high tension lines. And he said: “They put on an expert witness, I think a man from M.I T., to show that these powerlines will be obsolete in 27 years. The court apparently believed them.” During a following intermission Angus McCauley,
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