Moran v. Iowa State Highway Commission

Appellee, at the time the proceeding with which we are dealing was commenced, was the owner of a quarter section of land in section 28, township 81, range 26, in Dallas county. Across this farm an interurban railroad had taken a strip 100 feet wide, running from approximately the southeast corner to the northwest corner, leaving about 75 acres to the north and 75 acres to the south of said strip. Appellant, for its purposes and in this proceeding, condemned a strip of land along the north side of the interurban right of way, which from the northwest comer of the farm to the tract in the…