Union Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL MOTION IN A CASE PENDING IN THIS COURT ON APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. This was a motion made in a case appealed from the Court of Claims, to require that court to send up the evidence, or to specifically find on certain requests for findings made by one of the parties, and not passed upon specifically and in detail by the court. The facts are stated .in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This suit was brought by the Union Pacific Railway Company against the United States under Rev. Stat. §§ 5260 and 5261, to recover among other things the price of the transportation of mails by the company in accordance with the requirements of its charter. These sections are as follows :
“ Sec. 5260. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to. withhold all payments to any railroad company and its assigns on account of freights or transportation over their respective roads of any kind,.to the amount of payments made by the United States for interest upon bonds of the United States issued to…
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