Western Pacific Railroad Company v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff is suing for the recovery of certain amounts alleged to have been wrongfully withheld by the United States on bills of lading for material shipped to Pacific Coast ports at various times between 1942 and 1951.

In 1951, plaintiff sued in this court on its claim that the Government owed transportation charges for the shipment of aircraft landing mats during the period from 1942 to 1945. We suspended proceedings in that action on defendant’s motion pending the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the War Materials Reparations Cases, 294 I.C.C. 5. In…