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DELAWARE, L. & W.R.R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 158.

249 U.S. 385 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 348

63 L.Ed. 659

DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. F. Carter Pope and Mr. Benjamin Carter for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a petition to recover additional pay for the carriage of the mails upon two routes from July 1, 1907, to July 1, 1909 — the claimant alleging and the United States denying that it had contracts at fixed rates for four years from July 1, 1905. The Court of Claims, without stating in terms what the contracts were, set forth the transactions that fixed the relations of the parties, and rejected the...

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