Lancaster v. United States

*90MEMORANDUM BT THE COURT

There are four questions of law presented for consideration in this case.(1) The plaintiffs’ railroad was not a land-grant road, but was a party to an equalizing agreement by which it agreed to transport Government property on the same terms as land-grant railroads. The accounting officers refused to allow plaintiffs the benefit of the 50 per cent land-grant rate under the act of October 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 361, and made deduction for land grant at the rate of 100 per cent. Plaintiffs are entitled to recover the difference under the decisions in Baker, Receiver, v. United…