Thompson Appeal

Opinion by

Me. Justice Roberts,

Appellee, Rostraver Township Airport Authority, is a municipal corporation formed under the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945, Act of May 2, 1945, P. L. 382, as amended, 53 P.S. §301 et seq., and as such it has the power of eminent domain, ibid., 53 P.S. §306 B(Z). On March 14, 1966 it filed declarations of taking in the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County condemning land of the appellants pursuant to the provisions of the Eminent Domain Code of 1964, Act of June 22, 1964, P. L. 84, 26 P.S. §1-101 et seq. (Supp. 1966). The purpose of the condemnation was…