Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE’ DISTRICT OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve claims made by a railroad company for furnishing railway post-office cars to the Government, are stated in the opinion.' The parties were agreed upon the value of 60-foot postal ear lines as the maximum rate prescribed by Congress, and as such car lines were in fact used by the Government it must be held as having agreed to pay that value. Minneapolis &c. Ry.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE’ DISTRICT OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve claims made by a railroad company for furnishing railway post-office cars to the Government, are stated in the opinion.' The parties were agreed upon the value of 60-foot postal ear lines as the maximum rate prescribed by Congress, and as such car lines were in fact used by the Government it must be held as having agreed to pay that value. Minneapolis &c. Ry. Co. v. Columbus Mill Co., 119 U. S. 149, is in no sense analogous. The Government in fact accepted and used 60-foot cars’ during the…
1Opinion of the Court
•Mb. Justice Lamar
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad had a four-year contract with the Post-Office Department to carry the mail between Chicago and Kansas City. Payment was made on the basis of weight hauled and the speed with which the service was performed. The company also furnished sufficient “railway post office cars,” sixty feet in length, to make three round trips each twenty-four hours. This constituted.three “car lines,” for which the plaintiff received the maximum additional compensation then allowed by Rev. Stat., § 4004, under which the pay…
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