Legal Opinion
Causby v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided June 4, 1945No. 46054PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITAKER, Judge.
Plaintiffs sue for the alleged taking by the defendant of their home and chicken farm which was adjacent to the Greensboro-High Point Municipal Airport. This airport was operated under an enabling Act of the North Carolina Legislature. It was used by commercial airliners, by private planes, and by military aircraft. The defendant used it under a lease which permitted its military airplanes to land on and take off from it, and to use one of the hangars on it and to have the exclusive use of 10 acres of land adjoining the hangar.
One of the runways on which the plane? landed and…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Mitchell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- Matson v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1959
- City of Charlotte v. SprattSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1965
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