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WILSON v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 49359.

90 N.W.2d 161 (1958)

N. B. WILSON and Alice Wilson, Appellants, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 6, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. R. McManus, Des Moines, for appellants.

Norman Erbe, Atty. Gen., C. J. Lyman, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Mitchell & Beving, Des Moines, for appellee.

OLIVER, Justice.

Plaintiffs own a 7½ or 8 acre tract of land in the east part of Des Moines. Defendant Iowa State Highway Commission condemned a narrow strip along one side of this land, amounting to a fraction of an acre. A condemnation commission assessed plaintiffs' damages at $350. Plaintiffs appealed to district court and that jury assessed the damages at $14,000. The district court set aside that verdict and granted a new trial. From that order plaintiffs...

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