Bush v. United States

This is a suit brought by the plaintiff to recover from the United States land-grant deductions on transportation of men of the Arkansas National Guard or Organized Militia of that State, to and from a camp of instruction; and, second, to recover from the defendants deductions made by them, which deductions were made upon the assumption that the defendants had a right under a contract with the plaintiff to the rates of a special tariff of the plaintiff.

*200As to the first contention of the defendants, it is controlled by the decision of .this court in the case of Alabama Great Southern R. R. Co.,…