Highland Park, Inc. v. United States

WHITAKER, Judge.

This is a suit for just compensation for the alleged taking of plaintiff’s property resulting from the flight of heavy airplanes over its land.

In February 1951 McIntosh & Company, Inc., purchased a 75%-acre tract of land about a mile east of Hunter Field, an airport on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, for the purpose of subdividing it for residential use. In December 1951 McIntosh & Company organized plaintiff corporation, to which it deeded the property in February 1952.

In 1950 the United States acquired Hunter Field from the City of Savannah for use as a military…