Iowa Development Co. v. Iowa State Highway Commission

Two adjoining landowners, Iowa Development Company and Emma C. Murphy, as plaintiffs, appealed to the district court from the assessment of damages by commissioners for the taking by eminent domain of part of their lands for interstate highways. Upon plaintiffs’ motion the two eases were consolidated for trial. From the court’s ascertainment of the amount of damages, following trial without a jury, defendant state highway commission (herein called “the commission”) has appealed to us.

Iowa Development Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, owned a…