McNAUGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 88-52.

117 F.Supp. 420 (1954)

McNAUGHT v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Blood, Chicago, Ill., Samuel H. Horne, Albert L. Hopkins, and Hopkins, Sutter, Halls, DeWolfe & Owen, Chicago, Ill., on the briefs, for plaintiff.

Howard O. Sigmond, Washington, D. C., J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, and MADDEN, Judges.


JONES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages to the soil and to the tiling caused by defendant's use of 170 acres of land in Cook County, Illinois, as an outlying flying field under a lease of such property to the Government.

Plaintiff and her husband, now deceased, owned 452 acres of land in Illinois which they used as a dairy and livestock farm. Under date of April 3, 1942, 170 acres of the property were leased to the Navy for the initial period...

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