Riss & Co. v. United States

BECKER, District Judge.

This is an action by Riss and Company, a licensed interstate common carrier, against the United States to recover transportation charges allegedly incurred by the United States in the principal sum of $88,991.54. The defendant United States in its answer admits its liability for transportation charges in the principal sum of $88,-076.48, denying the correctness of certain of the charges.

*793United States counter-claims against the plaintiff Riss and Company for $231,172.12. As a basis for the counterclaim, the defendant United States states that the plaintiff Riss and…