Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kentucky, operating a system of railroads in the States of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The plaintiff is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kentucky, operating a system of railroads in the States of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Two of plaintiff’s lines of railroad were built with the aid of lands granted to divers predecessors in title to plaintiff by acts of Congress passed in the years 1856, 1857, 1869, 1871, 1875, and 1876. The acts of Congress granting said lands, which aided…
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM BT THE COURT.
As to all the items of the claim (except that for transportation of the Coast Guard) the court decides that the principles announced in Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., 52 C. Cls., 468, and Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co., 54 C. Cls., 131, are applicable. The plaintiff presented its bills for services to the Government’s accounting officers or disbursing officers, and these bills were paid as rendered, with some corrections not material here. The plaintiff’s bills made the land-grant deduction and made no claim that the charge for transportation was not subject…
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- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1917
- United States v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1914
- Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1919
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- Southern Pacific Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1921