Stom v. City of Council Bluffs

LeGRAND, Justice.

The ultimate question here is whether a landowner who has building lots fronting on a platted but unopened street is entitled to damages from a municipality which takes away all access to those lots, leaving the landlocked owner without means of ingress or egress.

Defendant’s assignments of error raise these issues: (1) The trial court erred in overruling its motion for directed verdict and, later, its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict; (2) the trial court erred in refusing to give instructions requested by defendant; (3) the trial court erred in permitting a…