Kaperonis v. Iowa State Highway Commission

It is well known that there are no slums in Iowa. Yet it must be admitted that the property with which we are concerned in the instant case, if located elsewhere, would not have been entirely out of place in such a district. Its legal description is Lot 2, Block 18, East Sioux City, Sioux City, Iowa. It was improved — if we may so use the term — by two one and onerhalf story one-family dwelling houses and another structure which was divided into four apartments.

One of the defendant’s witnesses described the houses in these terms: “* * * they were in secondary condition, lack of paint and I…