Smoot v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the ease: The following are the facts of the case as found b}r the court: I. In 1892 the District Court of the United States for the first judicial district of the Territoiy of Utah was being held in the county court-house of the count}7 of Utah, at Provo City.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the ease: The following are the facts of the case as found b}r the court: I. In 1892 the District Court of the United States for the first judicial district of the Territoiy of Utah was being held in the county court-house of the count}7 of Utah, at Provo City. At that time the county authorities of said county of Utah notified the United States Government to vacate and remove from the court-house and not thereafter to hold court therein. Thereafter, in July, 1892, E. H. Parsons, United States marshal ior the Territory of Utah, visited Provo City and…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldoN, J.
The claim of the petitioner is founded on a lease executed on the 30th of August, 1892, of certain premises in the city of Provo, in the then Territory of Utah, to be used by the defendants for the purpose of holding the United States court' of that Territory. The term of the lease is, that the rent was to commence and run from year to year for the period of five years from the date of occupancy, which was on the 13th day of February, 1893.
*423At the time of the execution of tbe lease the house on the premises had not been erected; but upon the faith of such a lease the claimant proceeded to…
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