SCOTT v. CITY OF SIOUX CITY

No. 87-1644.

432 N.W.2d 144 (1988)

Gene P. SCOTT, Joyce A. Scott, Arnold W. Madsen, Mary G. Madsen, Jim Fitch and Frank Fitch as Trustees of the John L. Connolly Trust, Appellants, v. The CITY OF SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Vohs of Bikakis, Vohs, Storm & Arneson, Sioux City, for appellants.

James L. Abshier, City Atty., C. Maurice Rawe, Ann K. Jansen and George Carroll, Asst. City Attys., for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and SCHULTZ, CARTER, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


CARTER, Justice.

Plaintiffs commenced these proceedings for inverse condemnation of their property on July 31, 1987, alleging the city had taken their property without compensation by passing a zoning ordinance restricting commercial development.1 The city moved for summary judgment on the ground that the five-year statute of limitations codified at Iowa Code section 614.1(4) (1987) bars this...

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