Keokuk Junction Railway Co. v. IES Industries, Inc.

SNELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Iowa District Court in a declaratory judgment action. Ruling on cross-motions for summary judgment, the court granted the motion in favor of defendant IES Industries, Incor porated. The district court was persuaded that a public highway purposes easement included within it the right of a private company to install electric utility poles. The court also found that the plaintiff landowner did not have standing to challenge the city’s permission to the utility company enabling it to erect its lines on the plaintiffs land subject to the easement. We…