St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS.' The case is stated in the opinion. The railroad companies obtained public lands for the consideration of serving the Government, by transporting its troops and its property. The content^ of the mail bags are not property of the United States, and the mail bags, whether loaded with mails, or going , back empty'for reloading, are merely appurtenant to the matter carried in them.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS.' The case is stated in the opinion. The railroad companies obtained public lands for the consideration of serving the Government, by transporting its troops and its property. The content^ of the mail bags are not property of the United States, and the mail bags, whether loaded with mails, or going , back empty'for reloading, are merely appurtenant to the matter carried in them. So, naturally, the loaded bags always had been, and still aré, treated as part of the mails and for this reason subject on land-aided railroads to 80 per cent, of the ratés of mail páy…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This case presents questions arising upon a suit brought by the Railway Company in the Court of Claims-to recover compensation for the carriage of mail bags-under facts found in the Court of Claims in the record sent up for our' consideration. These facts are: That the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, operated a line of railway between Tower Grove, Missouri, and Texarkana in Arkansas. So much of the railway line as lies between Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Texarkana,, Arkansas, was aided in its construction by…
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