Citations
- 267 F. Supp. 944
Full opinion text
FINDINGS OF FACT CONCLUSIONS OF LAW JUDGMENT
WEINMAN, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs, Ralph S. Gitzinger and Loretta C. Gitzinger, own a large tract of land lying on the boundary between Greene and Montgomery Counties in southern Ohio. This farm was inherited by the wife, Loretta C. Gitzinger, in the year 1941 and it includes a 35-acre limestone deposit.
In 1954 there was a corporation formed called Valley Stone Products Company to exploit this limestone deposit. A relatively insignificant amount of limestone was quarried, stockpiled and sold to “cash and carry” customers, which stone was used for driveway purposes. The corporation was composed of Gitzinger and two associates, without a quarrying background, and within a year, the op