Freedman'd Savings & Trust Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The terms of the lease on which this action was brought involved no interpretation and are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The terms of the lease on which this action was brought involved no interpretation and are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. The following are the facts found : I. Some time in the summer or fall of 1871, the then super-iintendent of tlie Treasury building engaged from or contracted with, tbe claimants for the rental of the four upper floors of their bank building for the use of the officers and clerks of the Department of Justice, at and for the sum of $17,500 per annum; but upon information from the Attorney-General that his department…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
In 1870, Congress established the Department of Justice, and directed the superintendent of the Treasury building to provide *26rooms for tbe new department. With tbe approval and co-operation of tbe bead of tbe department, tbe Attorney-General, tbe superintendent rented for that purpose a portion of tbe building known as tbe Freedman’s Bank. Tbe rent reserved by tbe lease under wbicb tbe government entered, and by virtue of wbicb it continues to bold, was duly appropriated by Congress in full up to the 30th June, 1874; but from tbe 1st of July, 1874, to tbe present time tbe stipulated rent has…
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