The Mail Divisor Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The cases are stated in the opinions.
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Holmes
These are claims for compensation for carrying the mails above the amounts allowed and paid by the Postmaster General. The four cases are independent of one another, but as the claims all depend for their validity upon a denial of the Postmaster General’s power to pass a certain order they may be considered together. They were rejected by the Court of Claims. The question shortly stated is this. The pay for carrying the mails is determined by the average weight carried. To ascertain this average the mails are weighed for a certain number of consecutive days, and for some time before 1907 the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- United States v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
3Cited by13 opinions
- Coumaris v. District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1995
- Fleischman Yeast Co. v. Federal Yeast CorporationDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1925
- People v. HoldmanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1977
- New York Central Railroad v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1928
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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