Southern Pacific Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the Court: I. The claimant, the Southern Pacific Company, is a corporation organized under an act of the legislature of Kentucky, of which the following is a copy: “Chapter 403. “AN ACT to incorporate the Southern Pacific Company. uJBe it enacted by the General Assembly of the Gommomoealth of Kentuchy: Section 1. That Henry D. McHenry, Wm.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the Court: I. The claimant, the Southern Pacific Company, is a corporation organized under an act of the legislature of Kentucky, of which the following is a copy: “Chapter 403. “AN ACT to incorporate the Southern Pacific Company. uJBe it enacted by the General Assembly of the Gommomoealth of Kentuchy: Section 1. That Henry D. McHenry, Wm. G-. Duncan, Samuel E. Hill, Samuel M. Cox, Henry McHenry, jr., and their associates, successors, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, created and constituted a body…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle;1 J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
This is an action to recover tbe amount due for services rendered by tbe plaintiff in tbe transportation of mails, troops, and supplies for and on bebalf of tbe United States from April 1, 1885, to tbe date of filing tbe petition herein, as settled and adjusted by tbe accounting officers of tbe Treasury Department over those portions of plaintiff’s leased and operated lines of road not aided in their construction by bonds of tbe United States, about which services and tbe amount due there is no controversy.
It is averred in tbe petition in…
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