Eastern Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. For some years immediately before June 30, 1877, the ■claimant had carried the mails of the United States on each of the routes named in the petition, under several written contracts, which expired on that day and were in the following form: “ This article of contract, made the 31st day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between the United…
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The Reporters statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. For some years immediately before June 30, 1877, the ■claimant had carried the mails of the United States on each of the routes named in the petition, under several written contracts, which expired on that day and were in the following form: “ This article of contract, made the 31st day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between the United States of America (acting in this behalf by the Postmaster-General) and the Eastern Railroad Company, by John Wooldrige,…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
By section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1873, oh. 231 (now Revised Statutes, § 4002), Congress directed the Postmaster-General to readjust the compensation thereafter to be paid for the transportation of mails on railroad routes, not to exceed certain rates, according to distances and weight, to be ascertained not less frequently than once in every four years, as therein specified.
Thereafter, by written contracts between the parties, one of which is set out in finding I as a form of all of them, dated March 31, 1874, but not executed until September 28, 1874, the claimant corporation, with two…
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