Source, Rutland Daily Herald--July 31, 1942. Airport Builder Sued for $2500, Charge Trespass. Roy C. Bixby and Laura Bixby of Clarendon, who sold to the city of Rutland a portion of the land for the MacArthur airport site, yesterday brought suit against Fitzgerald Brothers Construction company of Troy, N.Y., contractors, demanding $2500 damages for alleged trespass. Stafford, Abatiell & Stafford are attorneys for the Bixbys. The case is returnable at the September term of Rutland County court. The Bixbys, who own farm land adjoining the airport site on the east, complain that the contractor,through its agents and employees, entered its lands, without leave on June 24, 25 and 26 and cut down and destroyed trees, timber and underbrush, also removing a line fence which, the Bixbys claim, was their property. The further allegation is made that the constracting firm dumped rocks and other material on to pasture lands belonging to the Bixbys rendering the land unfit for pasturing cattle and horses as the owners had been accustomed to do. p.s. The farm in this article belonged to my in-laws, it's still in the family today. The land was taken by condemnation ! Transcribed by, Joan H. Bixby Genealogy not just a hobby, but a labor of love.