Duff v. City and County of Denver

We will refer to plaintiff in error as Duff and defendant in error as Denver.

Denver sought by eminent domain proceedings to acquire Duff’s privately owned land to expand its municipally owned Stapleton Airfield. Duff’s use of his land at the time of suit was generally as a private or fixed base operator for the storage and servicing of private airplanes. Denver contemplated using the land for supporting facilities such as airplane parking areas, taxiways and similar purposes, and possibly some for leasing to other base operators for operations similar to those now conducted by Duff.

Duff’s…