Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. From July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1900, the claimant, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, whose principal offices were located at Louisville, Ky., was- engaged, among other things, in the transportation of United States mails over the portions of its road involved in the controversy in this suit, under contract relations created as follows: On January 25, 1896, the…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. From July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1900, the claimant, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, whose principal offices were located at Louisville, Ky., was- engaged, among other things, in the transportation of United States mails over the portions of its road involved in the controversy in this suit, under contract relations created as follows: On January 25, 1896, the Post Office Department, in contemplation of the regular quadrennial readjustment of railway mail transportation rates,…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
Tliis is a suit brought by the Louisville and Nashville Bail-road Company (a United States mail transportation railroad) for money expended in equipping mail cars with certain mail-exchanging devices for receiving and discharging mail pouches at mail stations on its main line without stopping its trains.
Claimant company, at the time of the institution of the devices above referred to and prior thereto, under a continuing contract with the Post Office Department, was engaged in transporting the mails of the United States over all of its lines. Said contract, as shown by Finding I, was…
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- Eastern Railroad v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1885
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