Meyer v. United States

LARAMORE, Judge.

This is an action brought by plaintiff, for damages resulting from an alleged breach of a lease. Defendant has filed a motion to dismiss the petition on the ground that pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1500 this court is without jurisdiction because the claim upon which plaintiff sues here is pending in a condemnation proceeding in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

The allegations in the petition may be summarized as follows:

On June 22, 1951, the Clark Congress Corporation leased to the United States a 10-story office building in Chicago…