JOHNSON v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 49639.

94 N.W.2d 773 (1959)

Carl E. JOHNSON and Evelyne Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, City of Des Moines, Iowa, Defendants-Appellees. Richard P. KNIGHT and Carmen R. Knight, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, City of Des Moines, Iowa, Defendants-Appellees. Glenn Leroy SELBY and Joyce E. Selby, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, City of Des Moines, Iowa, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 10, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parrish, Guthrie, Colflesh & O'Brien, Maxwell A. O'Brien, Des Moines, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Donald L. Beving, Des Moines, James Thomson, C. J. Lyman, Ames, for defendants-appellees, cross-appellant.

Robert J. Spayde, Dale L. Spencer, Des Moines, for City of Des Moines, appellee.


GARRETT, Justice.

In 1957 the highway commission started extensive improvements on Primary Highway No. 28, which, in Des Moines is a city street known as Army Post Road. This street bounds the municipal air port on the south and intersects Fleur Drive which bounds the air port on the east. The plans for the project involved the widening and repavement of the highway and the condemnation of some land on the south side.

The plaintiffs Carl E. Johnson and Evelyne...

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