Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. United States

STONE, District Judge.

This is an action commenced under the Tucker Act, paragraph 20 of Section 24 of the Judicial Code of March 3, 1911, 36 Stat. 1093 as amended, 28 U.S.C.A. § 41 (20), to recover from the defendant freight charges on interstate shipments of government property. Plaintiff submitted its bills to the defendant at published tariff rates. The defendant, claiming that land grant rates applied under Section 321 (a) of the Transportation Act of 1940, 49 U.S.C.A. § 65 (a), deducted the difference between the published tariff rates and the land grant rates, in some instances from the…