Linge v. Iowa State Highway Commission

Plaintiffs David E. Linge and the executors and trustees of his deceased father’s estate appealed to the district court from the assessment of damages by condemnation commissioners for the taking of 4.8 acres of plaintiffs’ land and certain rights of access thereto from primary highway 149. From the award based on the jury verdict in the district court plaintiffs have appealed to us.

Three errors in admission of evidence are assigned. We hold plaintiffs are not entitled to a reversal by reason of them.

I. On June 2, 1959, plaintiffs purchased the west half of a certain quarter section of…