Case ID: us-ct-cl_61/html/1024-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice SaNEORD", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEARSON ET VIR v. THE UNITED STATES
    March 2, 1925.
    [58 C. Cls. 485; 267 U. S. 423]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    Where the Government erected and used buildings on leased land with the oral permission of the lessee, and subsequently removed them, although the lessors contended that the right to do so had expired by the terms of the lease, held, (a) that, in the absence of proof that the Government had knowledge of the terms of the lease or of the lessors’ acquiescence in the user, no relation of landlord and tenant existed between the lessors and the United States under the lease from which an agreement of the latter to pay for the property could be implied, (b) The Government having removed the buildings under claim of right, no agreement to pay as for property taken for public use could be implied.
   Mr. Justice SaNEORD

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court