Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States

The plaintiff bases its claim for the refund of land-grant deductions upon the requirements in certain party rate tariffs of cash at the time tickets are furnished with no land-grant deductions from the rates fixed in such tariffs. Its contention is that the requirement of cash payments excludes any idea of land-grant deductions from charges at party rates. But this contention can not be upheld. Nor can the Government be excluded from taking the tariff rates less land-grant deductions. The plaintiff, when the transportation was furnished, did not stand upon the cash requirement, but, as…