Southern Pacific Co. v. United States

Plaintiff seeks to recover on account of a large number of items of personal transportation furnished between March 1, 1912, and June 18, 1916, in exchange for the usual Government transportation requests, the basis of the claim being the difference between the amounts claimed in its bills and paid as claimed, at land-grant' rates, and the full tariff rates for such transportation; in other words, it is a suit to recover, on account of this transportation, the amounts deducted from full tariff rates on account of land grant, such deduction having been made by the plaintiff itself in the…