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LEHMAN v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 49644.

99 N.W.2d 404 (1959)

George E. LEHMAN, and George E. Lehman as Executor of the Estate of William F. Lehman, Deceased, Appellees, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 17, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Meardon, Iowa City, C. J. Lyman, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Daniel T. Flores, Gen. Counsel, Iowa State Highway Commission, Ames, for appellant.

Arthur O. Leff, Iowa City, for appellees.

GARFIELD, Justice.

This is an appeal by Iowa State Highway Commission, defendant-condemnor, from an award of compensation, following trial in district court, for the taking of a strip of land for a new controlled-access highway across plaintiffs' farm. Plaintiffs had appealed to the court from the award of the commissioners or "jury" appointed for that purpose. The two errors assigned here relate to the district court's instructions to the jury.

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