SIMMONS v. WETHERELL

No. 130, Docket 72-1541.

472 F.2d 509 (1973)

Augustus J. SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Horace B. WETHERELL, as the Director of Aeronautics, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen W. Silverman, Springfield, Mass., for appellant.

S. Victor Feingold, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen. of the State of Connecticut, Clement J. Kichuk, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for appellees.

Before LUMBARD, SMITH and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This case represents the federal stage of a long-standing and acrimonious court battle between the Simmons family of East Granby, Connecticut and state officials over the latters' attempts to condemn some land adjoining Bradley International Airport. Augustus J. Simmons now appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, M. Joseph Blumenfeld, Chief Judge, dismissing his § 1983 action against the...

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