WRIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 129-56.

279 F.2d 517 (1960)

I. Robert WRIGHT and wife, Laura B. Wright v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Y. Bell, Dayton, Tenn., for plaintiffs. Taylor H. Cox, Knoxville, Tenn., was on the briefs.

David D. Hochstein, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton, for defendant.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiffs are the owners of 4.5 acres of land in Blount County, Tennessee, about 9 miles south of the city of Knoxville, and about a mile north of the northeast end of the runway at the McGheeTyson Airport, principally used by military aircraft. They sue for the taking of an avigation easement by the Government under which it asserts the right to fly its planes of whatever character over plaintiffs' property at an altitude of 250 feet and above....

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