Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United States

This case comes before the court on defendant’s exceptions to the recommended decision of Trial Judge Kenneth R. Harkins, filed May 31, 1977, pursuant to Rule 134(h), having been submitted to the court on oral argument of counsel and the briefs of the parties.

The case concerns 41 disputed charges for carriage of Government property by rail. As is usual, the Government paid the charges, but on determining they were excessive via General Accounting Office post-audit, recovered the amounts by deductions from sums otherwise due. Sixteen items have been settled, on which plaintiff is due…