Northwestern Manufacturing Co. v. Bassett

— In the year 1923, plaintiff-appellant instituted condemnation proceedings in the district court, to condemn certain lands along the Des Moines River for overflow purposes in the building of a dam. A sheriff’s jury was impaneled, and on the 5th day of July, that body made its return, fixing the damages in the sum of $9,995. As required by law, appellant paid that sum to the appellee George S. Bassett, who was then sheriff of Webster County. Some of the property owners appealed, and the amount of the damages assessed for these' particular real estate owners was held by the sheriff, pending…