Legal Opinion
Matson v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided March 4, 1959No. 268-56PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, Justice (Ret.),
sitting by designation, delivered the •opinion of the court:
Plaintiffs are owners in fee of undivided interests in nine forty-acre contiguous plots in a section of land adjoining the municipal airport of Duluth, Minnesota.
This is an action to recover compensation for the taking of plaintiffs’ property by the United States through its use of the property’s navigable airspace, below minimum altitudes of flight, between June 1952 and June 1956, when the petition was filed.1 Plaintiffs’ petition sounds both in damages and as for a taking.
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2Cases cited12 opinions
- United States v. CausbySupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- United States v. Central Eureka Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Braniff Airways, Inc. v. Nebraska State Board of Equalization & AssessmentSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Richards v. Washington Terminal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Grace E. Avery v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1964
- Batten v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
- Alva A. Aaron v. The United States. Peter Andersen v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1963
- Lacey v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1979
- McCarran International Airport v. SisolakNevada Supreme Court · 2006
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