MATSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 268-56.

171 F.Supp. 283 (1959)

Ray S. MATSON (1), Enid V. Matson (2), Bernard P. Nelson (3), and Anna B. Nelson (4) v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

March 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Malone, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs. William W. Essling, St. Paul, Minn., was on the brief.

Thomas L. McKevitt, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton for defendant.


REED, Justice (Retired), sitting by designation.

Plaintiffs are owners in fee of undivided interests in nine forty-acre contiguous plots in a section of land adjoining the municipal airport of Duluth, Minnesota.

This is an action to recover compensation for the taking of plaintiffs' property by the United States through its use of the property's navigable airspace, below minimum altitudes of flight, between June 1952 and June 1956, when the petition was filed...

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