Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. United States

This is a claim for $9,429.92 additional pay for carrying mails between July 1, 1912, and July 1, 1914. The claimant'had been transporting them under an adjustment of compensation that expired on June 30, 191Q. In contemplation of the usual quadrennial readjustment by weighing, the Postmaster General sent to the claimant the customary form of Distance Circulars to be filled out and to be accompanied by the latest working schedules of trains operated over the routes concerned. The circular contained this clause: ‘ ‘ The company named below agrees to accept and perform mail service upon the…