Quanah, A. & P. Ry. Co. v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff is a common carrier, owning and operating a line of railroad extending from Quanah, westward to Floydada, Texas, a distance of 112 miles. In addition it operates about nine miles of railroad under lease from the St. Louis, San Francisco Railroad Company, and it has interchange connections with the latter at Carney, Texas, with the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad Company at Quanah and at Acme, and with the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad Company at Floydada.

In the summer of 1938, for the purpose of recapturing, if possible, some of the cottonseed traffic…