WICKS v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 50808.

119 N.W.2d 781 (1963)

W. R. WICKS and Irene C. Wicks, Appellees, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION and State of Iowa, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 12, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan Hultman, Atty. Gen., of Iowa, Des Moines, C. J. Lyman, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry M. Keyes, State Counsel, Iowa State Highway Commission, Ames, and William L. Meardon, Iowa City, for appellants.

Messer & Cahill, Swisher & Swisher, and Marion R. Neely, Iowa City, for appellees.


SNELL, Justice.

Plaintiffs W. R. Wicks and Irene C. Wicks, husband and wife, appealed to the district court from the assessment of damages for the taking by eminent domain of part of their property and appurtenances thereto for highway improvement purposes. From the award following trial by jury defendants (for convenience herein called "the commission") have appealed to us.

Plaintiffs are the owners of a corner lot at the intersection of Highways #1, 6 and...

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