SWETLAND v. CURTISS AIRPORTS CORPORATION

Nos. 5812, 5813.

55 F.2d 201 (1932)

SWETLAND et al. v. CURTISS AIRPORTS CORPORATION et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 8, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. P. Hine, of Cleveland, Ohio (Thompson, Hine & Flory, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellants, Swetland.

H. G. Hotchkiss, of New York City, and H. J. Crawford, of Cleveland, Ohio (Cuthell, Hotchkiss & Mills, of New York City, and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey and Griswold, Green, Palmer & Hadden, all of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for cross-appellants, Curtiss Airports, etc.

H. Stewart McDonald, Jr., of New York City, amicus curiæ for Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt, of Washington, D. C., amicus curiæ for the Aviation Corporation.

Before DENISON, MOORMAN, and HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judges.


MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

F. L. and R. H. Swetland own a tract of 135 acres of land located on the west side of Richmond road in the village of Richmond Heights, Ohio, on which they had constructed before 1929 residences and improvements at a cost approximating $115,000. Shortly before or on May 28, 1929, the Curtiss Airports Corporation and its allied companies purchased for $398,048 a tract of 272 acres of land on the east side of Richmond road immediately opposite...

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