William Wrigley, Jr., Co. v. United States

This is one (Senate bill 1524) of a number of cases referred to this court under Senate congressional reference, Resolution No. 107, 67th Congress, 1st session.

The plaintiff is a West Virginia corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing chewing gum and was, in the year 1918, a tenant of the Bush Terminal Buildings Company under four leases, all of which expired August 1, 1921. The leases covered 60,748 square feet of space in Buildings No. 5 and No. 6 of the Bush Terminal property in Brooklyn, New York. On June 18, 1918, the Navy Department, acting under authority of the act of March…