Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad v. United States

If plaintiff is entitled to recover interest on the amounts, due it and allowed by legal authority and withheld by the Comptroller General, the amount due it is $35,821.78. Whitbeck, Receiver of L-W-F Engineering Co., Inc., v. United States, 77 C. Cls. 309; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville-Railway Co. a Corporation, v. United States, 78 C. Cls. 96. (Certiorari denied, 290 U. S. 671, in each case.) Plaintiff contends, however, that these decisions did not correctly interpret and apply the Act of March 3, 1875, after it was amended March 3, 1933, and insists that the act as it stood before…