Southern Pacific Co. v. United States

This case involves the right of the Government to deduct from the public terminal-to-terminal tariffs of a railroad over a route,, partly of land-grant aided mileage, identical with part of the mileage of another earlier constructed route of the same road between the same terminals, sums based upon the higher proportion of land-grant aided mileage in this latter route. On ac*551count of the importance of the question in administration, certiorari was granted.1

The carrier owns and operates two lines of railroad between Portland, Oregon, and Roseville, California, and Davis, California, both…