Iowa Electric Co. v. Scott

I. The appellant, Iowa Electric Company, commenced proceedings in condemnation in aid of a waterpower project owned by it. The appellees are the landowners and defendants in condemnation. An award was made by the sheriff’s jury, from which appeals were perfected to the district court, some by e0ndemnor and some by both parties. Before hearing was had on the appeals, the condemnor dismissed its condemnation proceeding, and refused, to take the property. Thereafter, appellees, by motion, moved the court to tax reasonable attorneys’ fees as costs against the company, and in favor of the…