Southern Pacific Co. v. United States

Petitioner brought suit in the Court of Claims to recover for the transportation- over its lines of several shipments of military impedimenta, made by the War Department in 1916 and 1917. The court allowed recovery for five' items and denied recovery for certain others, which are alone the subject of controversy here. This Court granted certiorari. 270 U. S. 103, 107; § 3(b) Act of February 13, 1925, c. 229, 43 Stat. 939.

Some of the lines of petitioner were constructed with the aid of land-grants by the United States under acts of Congress requiring land-aided railroads to transport troops,…