State Ex Rel. Head v. Paulson

Rogosheske, Justice.

Defendants appeal from an order denying their motion for amended findings or in the alternative to take additional testimony following an order allowing expenses and attorneys’ fees upon the state’s discontinuance of condemnation proceedings to take for highway use lands owned by defendants. The dispositive question presented is whether, upon the record submitted, the trial court’s finding of the reasonable value of the legal services is clearly erroneous. Rule 52.01, Rules of Civil Procedure. We hold that it is not.

After a commissioners’ award of $90,000 to defendants for…