Georgia Kaolin Co. v. United States

This is an action brought against the defendant as sub-lessee under a World War II lease between the plaintiff and the City of Macon, Georgia, covering the use of plaintiff’s Kaolin-bearing land adjacent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia, as a troop maneuver and training area. It is claimed that the use of the property as a firing range left it impregnated with an unknown quantity of unexploded shells which, unless and until they were removed as construably required by the restoration provision in the lease, created a condition too hazardous for the mining of kaolin, the purpose for which it was…