Show AEROPLANES RUIN HIS FAR FARM French Landowner Brings Suit to ta Keep Air All Machines Feet Up Asks Up-Asks Asks Damages Paris Can Can the air be considered j private property This Is the question question ques ques- tion Uon which the tribunal ttY V Seine Is I called upon to answer A landowner named Heurtebise whose property is near the Buc Due Aerodrome Is suing the Farman Brothers tho the ford Borel Aeroplane company and Robert Esnault for damages for allowing aeroplanes aeroplanes' to come over his property Since th the conquest of the air said J his Fabre the tho hares and mi 7 partridges with which the estate was was- well stocked have been frightened away by the roaring of motors ane and aeroplanes his fields have hav been cut cutup cutup I up and his crops damaged by the tho In hv inexpert expert descents of beginners He was afraid to walk In the grounds for fear of being crushed The birdmen who hung over his head were a worse torture than the sword of Damocles f His client did not claim the air UP to and including the empyrean real realm j but basing himself on article 52 t Qt of tf if the civil code which specifies tb thai man is master above e and below tb the surface of his land he asked that aeroplanes aero planes should be compelled to remain above e a minimum height of fee feet I t. t The case was vas adjourned |