Goergen v. Department of Public Works

This is a suit for an injunction to prevent the state department of public works and its employees, defendants, from appropriating a strip of plaintiff’s land in Dakota county for a public highway without paying therefor or depositing with the county judge the amount of a 1,200-dollar award which appraisers made December 15, 1930, in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the department of public works before the county judge August 4, 1930. The facts on which the suit is based are stated in the petition for the injunction.

The state of Nebraska by the department of public works appeared…