National Carloading Corporation v. United States

I do not agree that the statute ipso facto entitled the Government to the reduced rate “regardless of how transportation is arranged.” My colleagues decide the question without reference to the shipping documents while I believe that without them the freight forwarder might have been entitled to recover. There is no question — indeed it is here conceded — that had the goods been tendered directly to the railroad, land grant rates would apply. “All of the reported cases of which we are advised involve a dispute between the government and a carrier as to the application of such rates.”1

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