BANGERT v. OSCEOLA COUNTY

No. 89-713.

456 N.W.2d 183 (1990)

Clarence W. BANGERT, Carl E. Berkenpas and Barbara E. Berkenpas, Appellants, v. OSCEOLA COUNTY, Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 23, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Eidsmoe of Eidsmoe, Heidman, Redmond, Fredregill, Patterson & Schatz, Sioux City, for appellants.

Richard D. Zito and Harold D. Dawson of Corcoran, Skiver, Zito, DeKoter & Thole, Sibley, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, CARTER and LAVORATO, JJ.


SCHULTZ, Justice.

Historical facts concerning the settlement of extreme northwest Iowa are a vital and interesting portion of the record in this trespass action. Plaintiffs seek damages against Osceola County for the wrongful removal of trees standing along a half-mile stretch of county roadway. In 1873 pioneers William and Mary Foster traveled by covered wagon to their homestead and built a sod hut on a flat and treeless plain. As a condition for the receipt of a...

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