Hagenson v. United Telephone Company of Iowa

LeGRAND, Justice.

This is an appeal from three judgments against United Telephone Company of Iowa (hereafter called the company) following the trial of consolidated actions growing out of the laying of a telephone cable. The actions were here in an earlier appeal involving other questions. See Hagenson v. United Telephone Co., 164 N.W.2d 853 (Iowa 1969).

For convenience we refer to the individuals who ask damages — Kramer, Jones, and Hagenson — as the landowners. They own three tracts of land which lie north of a county highway. A road (or lane) runs generally north from this county highway…