Welton v. Iowa State Highway Commission

The plaintiff, in his petition, alleges that he is the owner of certain land in Mahaska County, upon which an orchard, consisting of about twenty apple trees, is located, in close proximity to tbe buildings and improve-meats thereon; that the defendants, constituting membership of the state highway commission and its chief engineer, have taken steps to establish a primary highway through said land and through said orchard, and have instituted a proceeding to condemn the said land for the purpose of using the same in the construction of said primary highway; and that, unless restrained by an…