GIRARD TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8713.

149 F.2d 872 (1945)

GIRARD TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Sweeney, of Washington, D. C. (Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., and Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

Claude C. Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa. (A. David M. Speers, Harold B. Steinberg, and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, all of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, ALBERT LEE STEPHENS and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

In the case at bar the Girard Trust Company, the lessor under a written lease entered into by it and the United States for the rental of a building in Philadelphia known as the "Penn Athletic Club Building" and occupied by the Securities and Exchange Commission, seeks to recover from the defendant, the United States, the sum of $1,158.53, representing the cost of repairs to certain electric installations in the building. The suit was brought...

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