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Show STATE MAY CONDEMN. SITES. ' Djcision of Wide Effect on Water Power Development. i Washington. In a decision of wide effect on water power development - throughout the United States the supreme su-preme court held Monday that states possess the power to enact laws authorizing au-thorizing condemnation of power sites and water rights, by r:ght of eminent domain. The decision was announced by Justice Jus-tice Holmes in upholding the constitutionality consti-tutionality of the Alabama water power condemnation statu'es in a case touching the improvement of Tallapoosa river. |