‘‘Under a contract with the Ala
bama Power company the govern
ment acquired the right to use tem
porarily the land of that company
upon which the government erected
an addition to one of the company’s
steam plants and a transmission line
from that plant to Sheffield, Ala.r(
total war time cost of about $4,750,000. j
Under the terms of the contract the j
company sometime ago served notice j
on the government to either remove
the property from the land of the i
company or sell to the company at a
fair appraised value. The Secretary j
of War advised both the judge advo- j
cate general of the army and the At- !
torney General that the former secre- j
tary of war was authorized to con
tract for the temporary use of the
lands of the company to place gov
ernment buildings and machinery
thereon and to stipulate for their re
moval and the restoration of the
lands to the owner in their former
condition as provided in the contract.
This advice can be given notwith
standing opinions had been previously '
re..uered holding certain other pro- !
In closing a lawyer’s estate,
his library of several hundred
volumes was offered for sale.
It was a valuable collection
for any one who had not al
ready built up his library, and
Jerry Leffingwell, who had now
been practicing for more than
five years, saw in the offer a
chance to buy something he
needed.
So Jerry investigated. The
price for the collection, he found
was low, but it was a few hun
dred dollars beyond what he had
available for the purpose. In
order to seize the opportunity
it would be necessary to raise
some extra money.
