State v. Johann

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

Plaintiffs, State of Iowa and State Board of Regents, filed a petition for writ of certiorari in this court to challenge certain condemnation proceedings before the sheriff of Dickinson County and the chief judge of the (then) fourteenth judicial district. Those proceedings purported to condemn a right of way across land owned by the State for the benefit of a private landowner who claimed to have no public or private way to his tract. We entered an order for issuance of writ and proper return was filed. We now sustain the writ and annul the eminent domain proceedings…