United States v. San Geronimo Development Co.

MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals, in which the petition filed by the United States in the court below is somewhat of an unfamiliar hybrid, and the substantive question upon which the decision turns is a special and non-recurring one as to which there are no precedents to indicate the answer.

In No. 4074, the United States claims that during the war emergency the Navy Department is entitled to the free use and occupation of a certain tract of land in Puerto Rico under a right reserved in a lease for 999 years executed by the Navy Department to one Virgil Baker in 1921, pursuant…