Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company v. The United States

DURFEE, Judge.

Plaintiff and its connecting carriers transported and delivered carload shipments of ammunition from inland points of origin to ports of embarkation at New Orleans and Braithwaite, Louisiana, during the period February to December, 1943. The carloads were first shipped to inland storage depots at Bynum, Alabama ; Fort Estill, Kentucky; and Milan, Tennessee. Reshipment was later made from there to an Ammunition Back-Up Storage Depot located at Spann, Louisiana, a local station on plaintiff’s railroad. Here the shipments were again stopped by order of the Government, and later…