Mann v. City of Marshalltown

MASON, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs, Donald C. Mann and his wife Phyllis, from the trial court’s order sustaining the City of Mar-shalltown’s pretrial motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ petition seeking to enjoin the City’s proposed condemnation of their land for the expansion of a municipal airport. Plaintiffs’ farmland is located west of defendant’s airport. The North Center Street Road separates the airport from the land. Defendant City had tentative plans to extend the airport runway across the North Center Street Road onto plaintiffs’ farmland.

November 1, 1976, plaintiffs filed a…