Caperton v. Clarke

Opinion of ti-if, Court by

Sandidge, Commissioner

Affirming.

After the close of the World War, the United States of America, by the Secretary of War, acting by agents of the Quartermaster’s Department and under authority of the provisions of an act of Congress, approved February 28, 1920, contracted with D. C. Clarke, trading as the Louisville Real Estate & Development Company, for the sale at public auction of Camp Zachary Taylor, in Jefferson county, Kentucky. To facilitate the conveyance of the property to the purchasers, the United States deeded the lands of the camp to the National Bank of…