Johnson v. Iowa State Highway Commission

— On August 6, 1964, plaintiffs filed a petition at law against Iowa State Highway Commission' and H. A. Heverly, its special right-of-way engineer, ■ claiming $10,000 actual damages and $20,000 exemplary damages. The petition alleged that during July 1963 they learned their property on Walker Street in Des Moines would be affected by the relocation of Bast Fifteenth Street, they employed counsel to negotiate with defendants, Heverly met with their counsel but no settlement was reached because of bias and prejudice against them. Paragraph 8 alleged: “That on or about July 8, 1964, the…