Chicago Union Station Co. v. United States

Plaintiff seeks to recover an amount which it paid on account of injuries sustained by one of its employees.

On June 19, 1931, plaintiff sold a tract of land in Chicago to the defendant for use as a post office site. In the deed plaintiff reserved to itself, for use as a part of its railroad station, a perpetual subsurface easement for the first seventeen feet above the railroad tracks running through the premises conveyed. On the following day, plaintiff and defendant as a part of the same transaction entered into a. contract which contained the following provisions:

The United States shall…