Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The facts of this case are clearly set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
Under this title two cases have been tried together which involve the decision of the obligations of the Government for the occupation as a temporary post-office of a building in Chicago owned by Mr. H. H. Honoré, and to which afterwards, and while in use for postal purposes, the claimants, through the foreclosure of a mortgage, obtained title.
The great fire of 1871 drove the Government to the temporary use of a church, where they remained until July, 1874, when, another fire evicting them, the postmaster, as became a faithful functionary, instantly began search for a new office, that the…
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