Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. United States

In Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Co. v. United States, 104 U. S., 680, it was held that where the railroad company had a contract for a term of four years at a stipulated price to carry the mails the price could not be reduced during the *432term by the Post Office Department without the former’s consent. That road was a land-grant road; and in Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. case, 104 U. S., 687, the same ruling was made. In each of said cases an attempt had been made by the Postmaster General to reduce the compensation stated in the contract because of the direction to do so contained in the act of…