Starling Realty Corp. v. State

In 1937 the claimant Starling Realty Corporation was the owner of an office building on Spring street in the village of Ossining, N. Y. Sometime prior to October in that year, the State sought to lease a portion of the building for the use of the State Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance. In order to make the building adaptable to such use, certain structural *376alterations were necessary; they were made by the claimant; they involved an expenditure of about $1,200.

After these alterations were made, and on October 11, 1937, with due formality, a lease in writing was made and…