Warren v. Iowa State Highway Commission

The defendants, the Iowa State Highway Commission and its members and certain of its officers, are en gaged in building National Interstate and Defense Highway No. 35 in a general north-and-south direction across Clarke County. The right of way of this highway is 300 feet wide. It crosses an east-and-west secondary road which runs between Sections 13 and 24, in Township 72 North, Range 26 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian, which the defendants propose to close at the intersection. The plaintiff owns a 40-acre tract in Section 24, the nearest point of which is slightly more than 200 feet…