Perry v. Iowa State Highway Commission

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We are required here to pass upon a number of questions which arose in the trial of an eminent domain action.

Plaintiffs owned a 200-acre farm in Decatur County, Iowa. Defendant condemned 17 acres on a diagonal curve through the farm for an interstate highway. Defendant also condemned two acres along the west side and in the northwest corner of the farm, most if not all of which was already burdened by an easement for a county road. The sheriff’s jury allowed plaintiffs $16,500, and plaintiffs appealed to the district court. The following from Exhibit A-l shows the shape of…