United States v. Entire Fifth Floor in Butterick Bldg.

BRIGHT, District Judge.

The Government, by petition filed June 29, 1942, sought to condemn the use and occupancy of “the entire fifth floor, together with all permanent partitions therein of the Butterick Building, at 161 Sixth Avenue, New York City, together with the right of ingress and egress thereto”, for a period of three years from the date of the surrender of possession to it. On the same day it obtained an order for the immediate possession of the premises, together with the right to improve the same, and reserving to it, or its assignees, the right to remove all equipment and fixtures…