70. Every company shall compensate the owners or occupants of buildings or other property, or the public, for all damages to be by them sustained in or by the carrying out of all or any of the said powers, subject to which provisions this act shall be a sufficient justification to every such company and its servants, and those by them employed, for what they or any of them do in pursuance of the powers hereby granted.
R. S. 1964, c. 285, s. 70.