Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States

From the stipulation of facts upon which the case was submitted it appears that the plaintiff “ for itself and other carriers participating in the movements ” furnished transportation to the Army in the months of July, August, and *488October, 1916. It presented its three several bills for the service upon the basis of proper fares, which the disbursing quartermasters paid as rendered without any deduction therefrom. If this suit was to recover for the service thus rendered in 1916 it would be barred by the statute of limitations of six years, because suit was not brought until March 14, 1923.…