HARMSEN v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 50107.

105 N.W.2d 660 (1960)

John M. HARMSEN, Bernice V. Harmsen, and Anita State Bank, Appellees, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman A. Erbe, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, and C. J. Lyman, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., John L. McKinney, Trial Counsel, Ames, and Savery & Yarham, Atlantic, for appellant.

Harold De Kay, Atlantic, for appellees.


GARRETT, Justice.

The defendant Iowa State Highway Commission condemned for highway purposes a strip of land about three hundred feet wide across the north side of the 160 acre farm of John M. and Bernice V. Harmsen, who, with Anita State Bank, mortgagee, are plaintiffs.

The proceedings took 22.93 acres of good farm and pasture land for right-of-way for Interstate Highway 80 and a proposed creek channel change. The farm is bordered on the west and south by...

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