County of Westchester v. Commissioner of Transportation of Connecticut

Defendants, landowners in the State of Connecticut (landowners), appeal from an order entered in June 1992 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Gerard L. Goettel, J., granting partial summary judgment to plaintiff County of Westchester (the County) on its claim of a prescriptive avigation easement under Connecticut law. 793 F.Supp. 1195. The appeal comes to us pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), the district court having made the requisite certification in August 1992 and this court having accepted the interlocutory appeal. We heard argument in November…