New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: The averments of the petition to which the defendants demur will be found sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case: The averments of the petition to which the defendants demur will be found sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. It is alleged in the amended petition that under the statutes the Postmaster General caused the mails to be weighed for the period of 105 days as of October 18, 1908, and as of October 27, 1912, and took the average weight so ascertained for the total weight carried for each fiscal year of the succeeding quadrennial period. It is further alleged that the Postmaster General did not comply with the law and ascertain the amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNet, Judge
The defendants demur to the amended petition of the plaintiff consisting of two counts. The first count embraces two claims. The first claim in this count is an alleged balance due because of the improper and illegal construction given by the Post Office Department to section 4002 of the Eevised Statutes, as amended, in the weighing of the mails, and in determining the amount thereof carried by the plaintiff, as well as its proper compensation for the same. The second claim in the first count is for additional compensa*232tion for carrying parcel-post packages, after the same were added to the…
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