Osborne Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Chattanooga

OPINION

PARROTT, Presiding Judge (E.S.).

In this inverse condemnation action plaintiffs, Osborne Enterprises, Inc. and East Ridge Development Corporation, Inc., seek damages for the loss of air space above their property and for the cutting of trees on their property that encroach into the defendant airport’s glidepath.

Both sides have appealed. The defendants assign error to the circuit judge’s allowing plaintiff, Osborne Enterprises, Inc., to amend its original complaint to include East Ridge Development Corporation, Inc. as a party plaintiff. The plaintiffs insist the circuit judge erred in…