Grand Trunk Western Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion. The land grant is the consideration for the promise of the railroad to carry mails at a price fixed by Congress. Rogers v. P. H. & L. M. R. R. Co., 45 Michigan, 460; Union Pacific R. R. Co. v. United States, 104 U. S. 662; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion. The land grant is the consideration for the promise of the railroad to carry mails at a price fixed by Congress. Rogers v. P. H. & L. M. R. R. Co., 45 Michigan, 460; Union Pacific R. R. Co. v. United States, 104 U. S. 662; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. United States, 225 U. S. 640. In making contracts, the United States lays aside its sovereignty and its contracts are tested as to validity by the same principles which govern in other cases. The attempted contract between the State and the Port Huron & Lake Michigan…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.. The railroad from Port Huron to Flint, in Michigan, sixty miles in length, was completed on December 12,1871. It was built by the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad Company. By foreclosure of a mortgage executed by that corporation and several consolidations it became on October 31, 1900, the property of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company and has since been a part of its system. For forty-one years after the completion of this sixty-mile road the mails were carried over it by the successive owners under the usual postal…
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