MARTIN v. PORT OF SEATTLE

No. 36996.

64 Wn.2d 309 (1964)

391 P.2d 540

GLENN A. MARTIN et al., Respondents and Cross-appellants, v. THE PORT OF SEATTLE, Appellant. VERN AARHUS et al., Respondents and Cross-appellants, v. THE PORT OF SEATTLE, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

April 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Robert W. Graham, Thomas L. Morrow, and Richard L. Young, for appellant.

Short, Cressman & Cable, Paul R. Cressman, William L. Hintze, Riddell, Williams, Voorhees, Ivie & Bullitt, Richard H. Riddell, and Stephen E. DeForest, for respondents and cross-appellants.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Lyman M. Tondel, Jr., and John E. Stephen, of counsel, amici curiae.


FINLEY, J.

This is an "inverse condemnation"1 action brought by 196 property owners against the Port of Seattle, a municipal corporation, as owner of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The respondent property owners seek damages for an alleged taking or damaging of their property for public use caused by nearby low altitude flights of jet aircraft landing and taking off from the airport...

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