Bidwell v. McCuen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal •/rom Jasper District Court. — K. E. Willcockson, Judge. Suit to enjoin tlie opening of a highway, and for damages to buildings and crops occasioned by the use of explosives in blowing out trees and stumps, in attempting to open said highway in front of plaintiff’s premises. Facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Plaintiffs are the owners of a. tract of land in Jasper County, Iowa, described in their petition as the north fractional half of Section 6-78-21, and the defendants are the members of the board of supervisors of said county. The controversy in this case arises over a strip of land on the north side of said tract, on which, prior to the matters complained of herein, there was a row of willow and cottonwood trees of various sizes, near and parallel with the north line fence, some of which had a diameter of three feet.
Defendants claimed the disputed tract of land as a part .of a highway…
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