Who owns the sky?
Civics 101
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The Hidden Rules of Ownership
In 1925 Montana's Supreme Court held that shooting a duck over a neighbor's land is trespassing into their airspace even though the trespass is temporary. In Iowa in 1902 there was a case disputing an arm extended over a property line to retrieve their own ladder. The reasoning in many of these rulings is that the landowner has a right for use and enjoyment of the land. Do you remember how you can lease or sell the mineral rights below the ground on your property? Yeah. So the same is true of air rights.
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