Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. United States

The only question in this case is whether plaintiff is •entitled to interest at 6 percent per annum on $223,066.62 which was duly allowed by legal authority and presented for payment, but which was withheld on November 1, 1927, and applied by the Comptroller General against an alleged indebtedness of the plaintiff to the United States. Payment of the amount mentioned was withheld from plaintiff until January 14, 1933, when it was decided in United States v. Great Northern Railway Co., supra, that plaintiff was not indebted to the United States for the amount on account of which payment of the…