Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The Texas and Pacific Eailway Company, a duly organized corporation, operated a line of railroad from Shreveport, La., by Sierra Blanca, Tex., to El Paso, Tex., in all extending over 835 miles, which constituted one of the mail routes of the United States before July 1,1890, numbered 31009, and after-wards numbered 150009. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The Texas and Pacific Eailway Company, a duly organized corporation, operated a line of railroad from Shreveport, La., by Sierra Blanca, Tex., to El Paso, Tex., in all extending over 835 miles, which constituted one of the mail routes of the United States before July 1,1890, numbered 31009, and after-wards numbered 150009. II. Prior to some time in 1883 the mail service between those points was performed by the claimant company. On the completion of the connecting lines to Sierra Blanca by…
1Opinion of the Court
RichardsoN, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
' This suit grows out' of what, in departmental language, is-called “lap service;” that is, distinct service over a trunk line-by two or more railway companies having connecting roads.
The Revised Statutes, section 4002, as amended, authorize- and direct how the Postmaster-General shall adjust compensation to railroad companies for carrying the mails.
“ Sec. 4002. The Postmaster-General is authorized and directed to readjust the compensation hereafter to be paid for the-transportation of mails on railroad routes upon the conditions- and at…
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