Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States

There is a stipulation of the facts in this case showing several items of the claim for which plaintiff is entitled to a judgment. A part of the claim, however, presents a question determined by this court in the Southern Pacific Company case, No. 34717, decided December 6, 1926, 62 C. Cls. 649. That question arises upon the following facts:

The plaintiff presented its bill and was paid. Subsequently the Auditor for the War Department, claiming that plaintiff had been overpaid, deducted the amount of the alleged overpayment from certain unsettled accounts of the United States Eailroad…