FIELDS v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIRPORT AUTH.

Nos. 86-282, 86-2312.

512 So.2d 961 (1987)

Jack E. FIELDS and Mary S. Fields, Appellants, v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIRPORT Authority, a Body Politic and Corporate, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S.W. Moore and Alan E. Deserio, of Brigham, Moore, Gaylord, Schuster & Sachs, Tallahassee, and Lee H. Haworth of Isphording, Korp & Muirhead, Sarasota, for appellants.

A. Lamar Matthews, Jr. and Steven D. Hutton of Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen, Sarasota, for appellee.


RYDER, Judge.

Appellants, Jack and Mary Fields, and more than one hundred other landowners living in the vicinity of Sarasota-Bradenton Airport, brought suit against the Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority alleging that overflights of aircraft flying into and out of the airport had occurred with such frequency and intensity as to have ripened into the taking of an avigational easement over their property. Appellants claimed that they were substantially deprived of...

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