United States v. Gehring

How courts have described this case

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• permitting assignment on grounds that it “will not increase the number of parties with whom the Government must deal”
• applying the general rules applicable to leases, including the Restatement (Second) of Property, not the special Massachusetts rule that was different from the generally followed rule
• “But though a lease may concern and convey a property interest, it is also very much a contract .... ”
• “[I]t is settled that the contracts of the Federal Government are normally governed, not by the particular law of the states where they are made or performed, but by a uniform federal law.”
• profits are evidence of a commercial purpose, but not conclusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).