City of Ottumwa v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• stating that costs “are now taxable only to the extent provided by statute”
• rejecting argument that “all costs” in section 472.33 includes “all expenses reasonably necessary in preparation and trial of the appeal”
• reversing allowance of fees for “each of two expert appraisers in preparing to testify and testifying upon the appeal”
• observing “the term ‘costs’ [in section 6B.33] does not include expert witness fees”
• neither attorney fees nor expert witness fees are embraced within the term “just compensation” for land taken by eminent domain
• Iowa Code section 622.72 (1997) provides for additional compensation for expert witnesses not to exceed $150 per day.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).