United States v. Great Northern Ry. Co.

VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

Tbe Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation of tbe state of Minnesota, is a carrier as defined in section 209' of tbe Transportation Aet of 19-20 (49 USCA § 77), in that it is a carrier whose railroad, or system of transportation', was under federal control at tbe time such control terminated at 12:01 a. m. on March 1, 1920. Said section 209 fixed the six months’ period, beginning' March 1, 1920, as a so-called guaranty period during which tbe railway operating income of a common carrier, with which the Director General of Railroads had made a contract…