Chicago & Alton Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporter’s statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois in 1906. It owns and operates the system of railroads in the States of Illinois and Missouri which, at the time hereinafter stated, were operated by claimant itself or by its predecessors in title, and since that date has transported the mails of the United States oyer…
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On the Proofs. The Reporter’s statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois in 1906. It owns and operates the system of railroads in the States of Illinois and Missouri which, at the time hereinafter stated, were operated by claimant itself or by its predecessors in title, and since that date has transported the mails of the United States oyer certain of its lines of railways designated by the Postmaster General as follows: In the construction of the above lines of…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ghief Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Early in 1907 the Postmaster General issued an order, No. 165, which was modified in June, 1907, whereby he gave notice to the claimant and other railroad companies engaged in carrying the mails that for the quadrennial term commencing July 1, 1907, he would use for a divisor in ascertaining the average daily weights of the mails the whole number of days included in the weighing period. By this was meant that he would use as the divisor 105 days, that being the number of days, including Sundays, comprised within the period of 90…
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