Johnson v. Iowa State Highway Commission

In 1957 the highway commission started extensive improvements on Primary Highway No. 28, which, in Des Moines, is a city street known as Army Post Road. This street bounds the municipal airport on the south and intersects Fleur Drive which bounds the airport on the east. The plans for the project involved the widening and repavement of the highway and the condemnation of some land on the south side.

The plaintiffs Carl E. Johnson and Evelyne Johnson own a residence property adjoining this street on the south some 900 feet west of the intersection. Plaintiffs Glenn Leroy Selby and Joyce E.…