Erie Railroad Co. v. United States

The plaintiff is a railroad corporation, a common carrier of freight and passengers. This suit is the result of an acute difference between the parties with respect to the proper freight rates applicable to a shipment of Government property under the following facts:

In March 1922 plaintiff, in connection with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, transported for the War Department, Quartermaster Corj)s, from Curtis Bay, Maryland, to Osborn, Ohio, a consignment of bomb sights, Mark I-A, and bomb-release mechanisms. The transportation was accomplished, and the one issue in the case is the…