Seymour v. City of Ames

The appellees are the owners of an unimproved five-acre tract of land near the western’limits of the city of Ames, Iowa, which tract of land borders upon a highway generally known as Lincoln Highway. All of the property of that portion of the city of Ames is platted or laid out in town lots with the exception of this particular five-acre tract. The highway commission had payed the Lincoln Highway along this tract with, an eighteen-foot strip of pavement, and the city of Ames proposed to and did widen the pavement by adding a six and a half foot strip on each side of the pavement installed by.…