Panama City Airport Board v. Laird

HOBSON, Justice.

Appellant, the Panama City Airport Board, organized under Chapter 23465, Laws of Florida 1945, filed a petition in the circuit court seeking to condemn certain real property owned by defendant-appellees. The petition set forth that the land sought to be condemned was a tract 100 feet in width and 2,640 feet in depth, and that such area was to be used as an approach or clear zone area for the runway at Fannin Field. A motion to dismiss this petition was granted upon the sole ground that Chapter 23465, Laws of Florida 1945, does not, in its title, include a grant of power of…