New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Deporters’ statement of the ease: The case was heard upon the demurrer of the defendants, and involved only statutory questions, which are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
RichardsoN, Oil. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Before the passage of the Act of July 12,1876, chapter 179 (1 Supp. Rev. Stat., 224), the claimant corporation had been carrying the mails of the United States between New York and Buf-faia daily, both ways by one postal car, upon an ordinary passenger train, and also by a fast exclusively mail train of four postal ears, and had received the compensation prescribed by the then existing law (Rev. Stat., § 4002, reproduced from the act of 1873, ch. 231).
That act reduced the compensation to be paid to all railroad companies for the…
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