Warder v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tlie ease. The following are the facts of this ease as found by the court: I. On or about the 14th July, 1874, a church at the corner of Wabash avenue and Harrison street, in the city of Chicago, occupied for post-office purposes after the conflagration of 1871, was destroyed by fire.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tlie ease. The following are the facts of this ease as found by the court: I. On or about the 14th July, 1874, a church at the corner of Wabash avenue and Harrison street, in the city of Chicago, occupied for post-office purposes after the conflagration of 1871, was destroyed by fire. Immediately after such fire the post-office was moved into what is known as the Honoré building, owned by H. H. Honoré; this was done at the instance of John McArthur, then postmaster, and without prior specific authority of the Post-Office Department. This action was…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
delivered, the opinion of the court:
Immediately after the fire of 1874 in Chicago, which destroyed the post-office, the postmaster there arranged to rent a portion, of a large building known as the “Honoré” building for postal service.' No formal contract in writing was ever' made, and the various negotiations and circumstances relating to the agreement between the owner of the building and the Government have been discussed, and the agreement has been construed by this court in two cases between the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, plaintiffs, and the United States,…
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- Finn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- United States v. LippittSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Green v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1883
- Lippitt v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1878