Hardaway v. City of Des Moines

STUART, Justice.

Plaintiffs owned a business building at 10th and Center Streets in Des Moines which was condemned by the city under the Oak Ridge Urban Renewal Project in September, 1967. The sheriff’s jury awarded plaintiffs $40,000 damages. They appealed to the district court claiming damages of $75,000. The jury returned a verdict for $30,000. They have appealed alleging five errors.

*580I. After defendant filed a general denial to plaintiffs’ petition but before trial, plaintiffs filed a motion to adjudicate points of law including the following propositions :

“1. Plaintiffs move the Court to…