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BELLEW v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 53353.

171 N.W.2d 284 (1969)

Ethel Cook BELLEW, Appellee, v. IOWA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Turner, Atty.Gen., Henry L. Holst, Special Asst.Atty.Gen., James E. Graham, Asst.Atty.Gen., both Counsel for Iowa State Highway Commission, Ames, and James B. Smith, of Shirley, Smith & Shirley, Perry, for appellant.

Allan A. Herrick, of Herrick, Langdon, Belin & Harris, Des Moines, for appellee.

MASON, Justice.

Iowa State Highway Commission appeals from the trial court's award of $71,000 as damages resulting from condemnation of a 40-acre strip of ground taken diagonally through plaintiff's farm for highway purposes. Ethel Cook Bellew, land owner, appealed to the district court from condemnation commission award of $38,391 asking damages of $147,557. This appeal was tried to the court without a jury.

Section 472.21, Code, 1962, requires condemnation...

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