Bellew v. Iowa State Highway Commission

MASON, Justice.

Iowa State Highway Commission appeals from the trial court’s award of $71,-000 as damages resulting from condemnation of a 40-acre strip of ground taken diagonally through plaintiff’s farm for highway purposes. Ethel Cook Bellew, land owner, appealed to the district court from condemnation commission award of $38,391 asking damages of $147,557. This appeal was tried to the court without a jury.

Section 472.21, Code, 1962, requites condemnation appeals to the district court be docketed showing condemnee as plaintiff and condemnor as defendant.

Plaintiff’s farm, located two miles…