Guith v. Consumers Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The coming of the airplane has not taken away any of the rights of the landowner to the use and enjoyment of his land and the air space above it. The privilege or right of airplanes to fly through the air space recognized by the common law and in the statutory law of Michigan is limited to that portion of the air space which the landowner does not need or want and the use of which does not interfere with the use, occupation or enjoyment of the land or the air space above it by the landowner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reaver v. Martin Theatres of Florida

2. “to enter the airspace above land in the possession of another, so long as he does so in a reasonable manner, at such a height as is in conformity with legislative requirements, and without interfering unreasonably with the possessor's enjoyment of the surface of the earth and the airspace above it. See Restatement of Torts, Vol. 1, Section 194; also, Comment f of Section 159, ibid. Counsel for plaintiff has cited no case, and our independent research has revealed none, where the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reaver v. Martin Theatres of Florida