Thomas and Tinie Causby bought 2.8 acres of land next to a small airfield near Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1934.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the Supreme Court's own opinion in United States v. Causby (1946), corroborated by contemporaneous law journal analysis and multiple independent secondary sources including official case captions.
Sources
- How Much of the Sky Overhead Do You Own? (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/328/256.html (caselaw.findlaw.com)
- https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/104300/united-states-v-causby/ (courtlistener.com)
- https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3331&context=jalc (scholar.smu.edu)
- https://www.mrod.law/2023/01/20/great-8-number-3-united-states-v-causby/ (mrod.law)