Southern Pacific Co. v. United States

The plaintiff is a common carrier by railroad, a portion of whose leased lines had been aided in its construction by *521grants of public lands. The plaintiff was one of numerous land-grant railroads. The services here involved were transportation of the United States mail during the period' December 6,1940, to December 27,1940, inclusive, over mileage aided by land grants. The plaintiff claims full mail rates determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission as reasonable for an unaided line. The defendant says that the rates to be paid are those for a line, land-aided to the extent that…