R. S. Howard Co. v. United States

This case comes to this court under a special act of Congress waiving the statute of limitations.

The plaintiff was the owner of a lease with the Bush Terminal Buildings Company. By a commandeer order dated June 18, 1918, the Government, acting through the Navy Department, demanded possession of the space occu*654pied, by the plaintiff under this lease. The plaintiff, acting under the order to vacate, secured other premises and made preparations to comply with the order of possession. On August 27, 1918, the plaintiff began removing from the space occupied in the Terminal.

On September 1, 1918, the…