Anderlik v. Iowa State Highway Commission

— We will consider the case as if the State Highway Commission were sole defendant. Primary Highway 84, running south from Cedar Rapids to the municipal airport, crosses the North Western railroad tracks which run nearly east and west along, but just outside, the city’s corporate limits. Plaintiffs’ three residences face east on the west side of the highway just south of the railroad. Commencing in September 1947, a viaduct and approaches thereto were constructed over the railroad under contracts let by defendant commission. The south approach to this overhead crossing is in the highway in…