Dean v. State

J. George Dean and Caroline M. Dean, plaintiffs and appellees, are the owners of a farm in Story County. This farm consists of 311 acres. On June 3, 1929, the state of Iowa, through its highway commission, defendant and appellant, appropriated by condemnation approximately 7.99 acres of that land for highway right of way purposes. This highway under consideration crossed appellees’ land in an. easterly and westerly direction, in such a manner as to leave approximately 140 acres on the north side thereof and about 170 acres to the south of it. The commission, on June 19, 1929, assessed the…