Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United States

Campbell. Chief Justice,

delivered the opinion of the court. .

The railroad company claims, and the evidence establishes, that its bills as stated by if were paid by the Government’s disbursing officer, and afterwards the Auditor for the Navy Department in settling the disbursing officer’s accounts checked these payments and made deductions therefrom which were subsequently collected by the disbursing officer’s making deductions of similar amounts from other proper bills of the railroad company. The basis of these deductions as made by the auditor was that the rates charged for transporting the…