Filor v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the 24th day of January, 1862, the plaintiffs leased to Lieutenant J. S. Gibbs, 1st artillery, United States army, acting quartermaster, for the use of the United States, the property known as “ Tift’s wharf and warehouse,” in the city of Key West, Florida, at the annual rent of $6,000, payable quarterly. The plaintiffs, before the lease was executed and at the time, were, and still are, the ownera of this property.
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On the 24th day of January, 1862, the plaintiffs leased to Lieutenant J. S. Gibbs, 1st artillery, United States army, acting quartermaster, for the use of the United States, the property known as “ Tift’s wharf and warehouse,” in the city of Key West, Florida, at the annual rent of $6,000, payable quarterly. The plaintiffs, before the lease was executed and at the time, were, and still are, the ownera of this property. They purchased it from Asa F. Tift, through his agent, Charles Tift, on the 27th day of December, 1861, for the consideration of $18,000. After the breaking out of the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The petitioners claim of the United States ($30,000) thirty thousand dollars as rent from the first day of January, 1862, to the first day of January, 1867, upon an agreement in writing made the 24th day of January, 1862, between the United States, by Lieutenant H. Gibbs, acting assistant quartermaster, of the one part, and the petitioners of the other part, under which the United States occupied certain premises known as Tift’s wharf, in Key West, in the State of Florida, from the said 1st day of January, 1862, to the day of filing the petition.
And on the evidence the court find the facts to…
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