Fearnley v. De Mainville

Appellees, in 1888, were the owners of a building in Lead-ville that had been used as a United States post office previous to that time. The lease was about to 'expire, and it *442became necessary to make a new contract if the office was retained in the same building., The United States government, feeling it absolutely necessary to exercise economy, without consulting the convenience of the people, required, as a bonus for mail delivery, that office room should be furnished gratuitously, or at nominal rent. For the purpose of retaining the post offioe in the building, and having to compete with…