Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. United States

Plaintiff sues to recover the difference between the land-grant freight rates paid on coal delivered by rail to defendant between 1942 and 1945, inclusive, and the same rates computed without benefit of land-grant deduction.

*635At various times during 1942,1943,1944 and 1945,. plaintiff, a non-land-grant railroad, in participation with, other railroads, transported for defendant numerous carload shipments of coal from several Old Ben Coal Corporation mines located in the vicinity of Christopher, Illinois, to government installations in Wisconsin and Illinois. Plaintiff, as the final and…