Filor v. United States

delivered tire opinion of the court:

The determination of this case does not depend upon the validity or invalidity of the title of the petitioners to the property in question. The difficulty with their claim does not arise, as the court below appears to have considered, solely from the-supposed invalidity of their title.' There is a difficulty from another quarter. We do not find in any legislation of the Army, or in any act of Congress, that the acting assistant quartermaster at Key West was invested with any power to-bind the United States to the agreement or lease produced, even though his…