Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The term “ steel cars ” included steel underframe cars as well as all-steel cars within the meaning of the act under consideration as intended by Congress. This intent may be gathered not only from the language of the act but from a consideration of the evil which Congress sought to remedy by the legislation.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The term “ steel cars ” included steel underframe cars as well as all-steel cars within the meaning of the act under consideration as intended by Congress. This intent may be gathered not only from the language of the act but from a consideration of the evil which Congress sought to remedy by the legislation. That evil was the hazard to life and limb of the railway postal clerks who distributed the mails in wooden full railway post-office cars en route. That hazard and the purpose to remove it is amply shown by the history of the times as evidenced by the…
1Opinion of the CourtHay, Judge
The plaintiff brings this suit to recover the sum of $223.02, being the amount which was deducted by the Post Office Department in making settlement with the plaintiff for the transportation of mails over the plaintiff’s line of railroad during the period from July 1,1911, to February 1, 1912, the Post Office Department having refused the plaintiff compensation for wooden full railway post-office cars on the ground that said cars were operated either between the engine and a steel underframe car or between a steel and a steel underframe ear. There is no dispute about the facts. The cars in…
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