TAYLOR v. CITY OF DES MOINES, IOWA

No. 2-68709.

337 N.W.2d 881 (1983)

Howard E. TAYLOR, D.C. Wirtz, and H.O. Chitwood, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF DES MOINES, IOWA, County of Polk, Iowa and State of Iowa, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

June 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelda Barrow Mickle and Mary G. Hellweg, Asst. City Attys., Des Moines, for defendants-appellants.

Robert E. Dreher and Dick L. Jensen of Dreher, Wilson, Adams, Jensen, Sayre & Gribble, Des Moines, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Heard by OXBERGER, C.J., and DONIELSON, SNELL and SCHLEGEL, JJ., HAYDEN, J., takes no part.


DONIELSON, Judge.

Defendant condemnor, the City of Des Moines, appeals from the trial court's judgment pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of the condemnees on their appeal from an award by a condemnation commission for their property. The city claims that the trial court erred in admitting as a comparative sale evidence of a negotiated sale of land between a seller who knew that a public body has determined to acquire the land for a public purpose and that body which...

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