Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from the Court of Claims. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
The action in the Court of Claims was brought by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company to recover compensation withheld by. the Postmaster-General, claimed to be due'upon a written contract for mail service, entered into. July 1, 1875, for the period of .four years.
The amount in controversy had been retained by, the Postmaster-General as a reduction of the ten per cent on the previous rates, under the provision in the act of July 12, 1876, c. 179, and of the further reduction of twenty per cent on the remainder, under the thirteenth section of that act, it being insisted that…
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